He was assigned to the Holston Episcopal Area, where he served until his retirement in 1988.
A member of the Holston Annual Conference of the Methodist Church, Rev. Looney served the following appointments: Rising Fawn Circuit, Rising Fawn, Georgia; Baker's Chapel - Wyndale, Abingdon, Virginia; and Pleasant View (formerly Baker's Chapel), Abingdon.
He was Licensed to Preach in 1878 and admitted to the Holston Annual Conference of the M.E.Church, South.
Walter's great-grandfather, the Rev. William Lambuth, was a Preacher in the Holston Annual Conference (admitted in 1795).
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The Bulldogs also lost three players to transfer, DeVontae Wright (South Carolina–Aiken), Jordan Robertson (Davidson County Community College), and Bo Holston (Anderson University).
In the 1940s, the Tennessee Valley Authority completed South Holston Dam, effectively inundating the Big Creek community, which straddled the South Fork Holston just upstream from the dam.
Other influential Overmountain Men included John Crockett (father of Davy Crockett), William Lenoir, Joseph Dickson, Daniel Smith, William Russell, and John Rhea, all of whom were at Kings Mountain, and Anthony Bledsoe, who commanded the homeguard for the Holston settlement while the main force was away.
The point is the center of the Holston River that is now Fort Patrick Henry Lake within the boundary of Warriors Path State Park.
It broadcasts a low-powered analog signal on UHF channel 36 from a transmitter on Holston High Point at Holston Mountain in the Cherokee National Forest.