Darrell Dean Waldal, 81, of Americus, GA, passed away Tuesday, September 14, 2021. Funeral services will be held at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, September 16, 2021 in the chapel of Aldridge Funeral Services. Rev Tom Dowdy will officiate. Interment with military honors will follow at Andersonville National Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Thursday from 11:30 a.m. until service time in the funeral home chapel. Lynwood McClung, Michael Lardy, Matthew Lardy, Colson Jordan, Corey Brown, and Chase Fox will serve as pallbearers. Bobby Duke, Alan Erkhart, Al Erkhart Jr., Buster Kitchens, Don Daniels, and Darrell Crenshaw will serve as honorary pallbearers.
Darrell Dean Waldal was born July 18, 1940, in Beach, North Dakota. He was the son of the late Bertil N. Waldal and the late Evelyn Lardy Waldal. An Army Veteran, he worked for Coca Cola Company and later for the Americus Times Recorder. He also managed the Moose Lodge in Americus for several years. Mr. Waldal was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church until...