He was a U.S. Air Force Veteran. Bert was a mason and member of the Garner Lodge #701 and Lodge of the Nine Sisters #773 of Raleigh. He was a member of Aversboro Road Baptist Church in Garner having served as a Deacon and member of the choir. Bert was instrumental in youth sports throughout Brunswick County. He was a police officer for the Boiling Spring Lakes Police Department and retired from the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office as a sergeant. Bert was a founding member of the Boiling Spring Lakes Volunteer Rescue Squad.
Bert was preceded in death by his parents Freeman and Ruth Dotson Walls. Survivors are a daughter, Lisa Kinsella; sons, Woody Walls (Criss), Joseph Walls (Tracey), John Walls (Elizabeth); brothers, Danny Walls (Sharon), Jackie Walls (Judy); grandchildren, Brittany Johnson, Jamie Watts, Mary Kathryn Kinsella, Jon Kinsella, Adrien Walls, Jarrett Walls, Jeremy Walls, Whitney Walls, Cassidy Walls, Lily Walls, Finnegan Walls, Elijah Walls, Emerson Walls, Alexander Walls, Kathryn Manis, Hunter Manis, Kimberly Williams, Connor Walls; great grandchildren, Jaxon Morgan, Lane Gore, Weston Watts, Isaiah Johnson and a host of nieces and nephews.
A Celebration of Life will be held Saturday, April 17, 2021 at Beach Road Baptist Church in Southport at twelve noon. The family will receive friends from eleven until eleven forty five prior to service. A service in Garner, N.C. will be held at Aversboro Road Baptist Church on Sunday, April 18th at three o'clock in the afternoon.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Brunswick Sheriff’s Charitable Foundation, P.O. Box 10820, Southport, NC 28461, Lower Cape Fear Life Care Center, 955 Mercy Lane, Bolivia, NC 28422, or the Masonic Home for Children, 600 College St., Oxford, N.C. 27585.
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