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In his later years he devoted much of his time to the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association and the Civilian Conservation Corps.

His creative spirit expressed itself in gem cutting, jewelry making, photography and water color painting. Memorial contributions may be made to the Pearl Harbor Memorial Fund. Survivors include his daughter Theresa Wagner and son-in-law Elio Longobardi of San Francisco, CA his son Daniel Wagner and daughter-in-law Victoria Wagner, grandchildren Nicholas and Tiffany Wagner, all of Riverside, CA and his brother, Monte Wagner of Salem, OR. His love of people and of learning led him to participate in many organizations, from the Rotary Club to the Coulee Dam Volunteer Police Officers to the Spokane Mushroom Society. He also had keen and wide-ranging interests in science, history and the natural world. Joe Wagner had a profound commitment to helping others, especially disadvantaged youth. In September, they celebrated 64 years of marriage. For the last 2 years they have lived with their son and daughter-in-law in Riverside, CA. In particular, his participation in the 1988 Codger Bowl football game is memorialized on south side of the Codger Pole in Colfax. He and his wife returned to Spokane in 1986 to be close to friends and family and spent over 20 years of happy retirement there. His work moved the family through several towns in Washington and Idaho, and eventually to Southern California in 1972. His social work career spanned 30 years of service to the community, first at Catholic Charities, then the State of Washington, the US Bureau of Indian Affairs and, after his retirement from the BIA, Riverside General Hospital. He continued to serve in the Air National Guard from 1947 to 1950.After graduating from Gonzaga University he obtained a Master's in Social Work from the University of Ottawa in 1956. He married Ruth Elaine Cloaninger in 1945. After surviving the Pearl Harbor attack, he served in the Pacific Theatre with the 7th Air Force until the end of the war. In 1940, his junior year of high school, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps and was posted to Hickam Field, Hawaii. Wagner, who was born in Farmington, WA on January 4, 1922, died on January 23, 2010. Memorial service for Joseph Walker Wagner was held Saturday, February 6th, at St.