Surviving Jay is his fiancé, Alicia Cornett brother, John Joplin sons, Daniel Angle, Christian Deshazo, Grayson Boyer daughters, Chloe Dalton, Halie Boyer nieces, Cassidy Grace Joplin, Kaydence Rose Joplin nephew, Joshua Ryan Joplin aunt, Patricia Hix Joplin uncle, John Booth Joplin cousins, Joe Saunders Joplin (Sarah), Alice Fleming Joplin (Chuck) special friend, Aubrey Wright. He was preceded in death by his father and mother, James Witten and Shirley Joplin grandparents, Joe Saunders and Lucy Witten Joplin uncles, Joe Saunders Joplin II, Alva Rice great-aunt, Ann Saunders Joplin grandmother, Beulah Lillian Scruggs cousin, Christy Scruggs. Walter is already terribly missed by his family.Jay Witten Joplin, age 46, of Rocky Mount, Virginia, passed away suddenly Monday, Jat his residence. He is survived by his wife children and their spouses grandchildren siblings and their spouses sister-in-law, Barbara Boettcher and nieces and nephews, Juliana Trach, Nikola Vujcic, Natasha Vujcic, Larisa Trach, Sara Trach, Douglas Trach and Erica Engelbert. Despite chronic health issues, he had a positive outlook and a strong will to live his life to the fullest. His favorites were The Animals, Leonard Cohen, Edith Piaf, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jacques Brel, Al Stewart, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Canned Heat, Love and many others.
He always had the radio on listening to old and new music. He spent many hours at the kitchen table with a cup of Lipton tea, mastering crossword puzzles and Sudoku or watching movies on TCM and one of his favorite TV shows like “Murder She Wrote” or “NCIS.” He loved music and could spend hours in music stores. He had a great memory, and no one could beat him at trivia.
He loved exploring and going “for a drive” on the weekends. His smile was welcoming, and you could not find him without a cough drop or a toothpick. Walter loved food - almost every day he would ask Cathy what she was making for dinner. He and Cathy dedicated a lot of time packaging up and dropping off his sales at the local post office. He eventually turned his “hobby” into a small and successful online book business. He could walk into any bookstore and find the rarest of books. He collected stamps, coins, baseball cards, watches, books, movies and music - to name a few. He was a “treasure hunter” and probably loved the hunt more than the find. To say that Walter enjoyed collecting is an understatement. They all loved his mustache and his silly sense of humor. He was extremely proud of his children and their accomplishments, especially his nine grandchildren, who were all born within seven years. He helped them with their schoolwork, and mathematics was his forte. He cheered them on at swim meets, sporting events (soccer, softball, baseball) and musical performances. Walter loved his children and encouraged them to study and work hard. They granted him the unofficial title, “Mayor of Pasadena.” He enjoyed traveling, but equally loved spending time at his home of 33 years in Brooklyn Park, Minn. He especially loved Pasadena, Calif., and was able to spend time with Nicole and Sonny. In his later years, he worked as a consultant, which allowed him to travel for work to many different areas of the country. He specialized in health care information systems and moved his family to Maryland in 1986 and then Minnesota in 1988. He shifted gears to another type of “language” and studied computer programming. He worked for the United Nations in New York City as a Russian translator. He was multilingual and earned a bachelor’s degree in Russian and linguistics and a Master of Arts in Slovak languages and literature. They were married on April 26, 1975, and had four children, Michele (Jamie) Glood, Suzanne Trach, Walter (Melissa) Trach and Nicole Trach (Sonny Mouneu). He studied at Penn State University, where he met his loving wife and best friend, Cathleen Lettieri, in 1969. He was the oldest of four children, John (Lizanne DeStefano) Trach, Luba (Bob) Vujcic and Stefan (Kathie) Trach. Nicholas Ukrainian Orthodox Church and learned traditional Ukrainian dances. He grew up in Monessen, where he was a member of St. Walter was born on May 4, 1948, in Regensburg, Germany, to Stefan and Helen Ciak Trach.
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