Album page: J. Pickens Walker Jr. obituary, McEwan birth-certificate envelope, McEwan/Bleam wedding invitation, Walker/Knight invitation envelope, and 'Pantry Shelf' clipping on the Greens
Book 1, Page 401 ·1941–1970
Transcription
An assembly of newspaper clippings and printed cards mounted on the album page.
Upper left — obituary clipping (Florida Times-Union):
News Editor Walker Dies; Rites Today
J. Pickens Walker Jr., 56, news editor of The Florida Times-Union for more than 20 years and a member of its news staff for 29 years, died at his home at 4275 Garibaldi Ave., Thursday morning after a long illness.
Mr. Walker was born in Charleston, S.C., the son of Mrs. Amy FitzSimons Walker and the late James Pickens Walker. The family moved to Jacksonville when he was a child and he attended school here.
After being graduated from Washington and Lee University in 1933 he worked as a reporter for the Savannah (Ga.) Morning News. He joined The Times-Union in 1939 as assistant news editor. He had lived in Jacksonville more than 30 years.
A sailing enthusiast, Mr. Walker was an honorary life member of the Florida Yacht Club and was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. He was a communicant of the Church of the Good Shepherd (Episcopal).
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. today at the chapel of Kyle-McLellan Funeral Home with Rev. Harry Douglas, rector of Good Shepherd assisted by Rev. John Bell of St. Peter’s Chapel, officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. The family requests that flowers be omitted.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ann Knight Walker, and his mother, of Jacksonville; a sister, Mrs. O. B. McEwen of Orlando, and several nieces and nephews.
A small inset portrait photograph of Mr. Walker in glasses, captioned J. Pickens Walker.
To the right of (and overlapping) the first column, a second clipping repeats the obituary in a slightly abridged single-column setting from the Savannah Morning News:
Walker
[The Times-Union’s news editor] for more than 20 years.
Mr. Walker was born in Charleston, S.C., the son of Mrs. Amy F. Walker and the late James Pickens Walker. He was a resident of Jacksonville for more than 30 years.
Upper right — envelope:
A pale envelope printed in upper-left corner:
Chas. Co. Health Dept. The Center — Room 304 Charleston, S. C.
Across the front in pencil, the compiler has written:
Copy of birth certificate of [Jean] and Mary Ann
Center — engraved wedding invitation:
Mrs. Mickler Bleam
Mr. Edgar William Bleam, Jr.
announce the marriage of their daughter
Cynthia Bleam Hutto
and
Mr. Christopher Gaillard McEwan
on Friday the fourteenth of August
Nineteen hundred and seventy
Saint Paul’s Methodist Church
Helena, Montana
Below the engraved card a handwritten note in blue ink reads:
Christopher G. McEwan Graduation from University of Fla. School of Law
[The handwritten note appears to caption a separate enclosure (perhaps a graduation card or program) that was once mounted on the page alongside the wedding invitation; it survives only as the caption.]
Lower left — invitation envelope, labelled in blue ink:
Wedding invitation Ann Seymour Knight James Pickens Walker Jr. June 26 1941
Lower right — newspaper feature with photograph of Nancy and Ted Green holding their baby Ned:
B4 Cupboard NEWS May 19, 1969 Orlando — Winter Park — Maitland — Casselberry, Fla.
FAMILY SCENE — Nancy and Ted Green are one of those busy young couples who are always “on the go” but the best times are with nine month old Ned.
The PANTRY SHELF
NANCY AND TED GREEN met while they were both working for the Orlando Chamber of Commerce, so you know they have a highly-developed appreciation of this area. In addition to that, Nancy, who is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. B. McEwan, belongs to one of our town’s pioneer families, all of whom have contributed greatly to Orlando’s progress…
A folded continuation of the clipping (visible at the lower edge) extends to a casserole recipe column (“CASSEROLE — ground beef, browned; rice (uncooked); 1 can cream of chicken soup …”) and an advertisement for the WEIGHT-LAND Shoppe CLUB, Orlando — Phone 644-8929, both partly folded out of view.
AI Notes
An album page assembled from five items: at upper left a two-column Times-Union obituary clipping for J. Pickens Walker Jr. (d. shortly before publication, age 36); at upper right a Charleston County Health Department envelope inscribed in pencil ‘Copy of birth certificate of [Jean] and Mary Ann’; at center the engraved wedding invitation of Cynthia Bleam Hutto to Christopher Gaillard McEwan, 14 August 1970 (Helena, Montana), with a separate handwritten note below labelling a (now-detached?) enclosure as ‘Christopher G. McEwan / Graduation from / University of Fla. School of Law’; at lower left the wedding-invitation envelope of Ann Seymour Knight to James Pickens Walker Jr., 26 June 1941, captioned in blue ink; and at lower right a 1969 Orlando-area ‘Pantry Shelf’ newspaper feature about Nancy and Ted Green with their infant son Ned. The obituary appears in two slightly different column-settings (a full Times-Union version and an abridged Savannah Morning News version), pasted side by side.
The 1969 “Pantry Shelf” feature on Nancy McEwan Green and her husband Ted appears in fuller form on a following page of the album. The obituary at upper left is undated on the page but Walker died 2 January 1969 (see also book-002/251), so the items on this page span 1941 (Knight/Walker wedding) through August 1970 (McEwan/Bleam wedding). The obituary’s first column gives the mother as “Mrs. Amy FitzSimons Walker,” using her maiden surname in the conventional Charleston form; the abridged second column shortens this to “Mrs. Amy F. Walker.” The sister’s surname is printed “McEwen” in the obituary, though family usage elsewhere on the page (and throughout the album) is “McEwan.”