Редактирование: Walter Runkel (раздел)

[[File:Walter Runkel.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Walter Runkel]]
'''Walter E. Runkel''' (January 4, 1916 – [[legal death]] October 7, 1991)<ref name="Grave">[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28545102/walter-e-runkel Walter E Runkel]. Find a Grave</ref> was a long-time officer of the [[Cryonics Institute]] (CI) and one of the four founding members of it.<ref name="About CI">[https://www.cryonics.org/ci-landing/ About CI]</ref><ref name="COPL">YouTube: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClYFGcE2R2o#t=17m40s COPL Remembrance of the Resurrectables 2020] (at 17:40)</ref> He was the technical director of a television network studio in Detroit.<ref name="COPL" />

A hands-on person good with tools, he helped with the construction and outfitting of the original CI facility.<ref name="COPL" /> He owned an apple orchard and developed a new subspecies of apple, the "Runkel apple".<ref name="COPL" />

The fifth patient of CI, he was [[Cryopreservation|cryopreserved]].<ref>[https://www.cryonics.org/ci-landing/patient-details/ Cryonics Institute Patient List]. cryonics.org</ref> The main building of CI is named the Erfurt Runkel Building in honor of [[Jack Erfurt]] and him.<ref name="About CI" />