Obituaries of Amy FitzSimons Walker (1973) and Mary Ann Walker McEwan (1975), with envelope from Nevers, France

A composite memorial page. Clippings, an air-mail envelope, and a sealed pamphlet are arranged across the sheet.

Upper left — air-mail envelope from France:

A pale envelope addressed in a strong slanted hand in pencil, with two French postage stamps (a beach scene at 1.00 fr captioned GUADELOUPE, and an 0.90 fr cityscape captioned RIQUEWIHR) and a circular postmark reading 58 NEVERS R.P. / 19.30 / 11 - 4 - 1972. Endorsement at left in pen: Par Avion. Above, in pencil: the typed-looking return address.

[Return address, upper flap, in cursive pencil]: Gramond, 38E, rue du Maupas 58 Nevers, France

[Address panel, pencilled in slanted hand]: Mrs. J. P. Walker, Jr. 4275 Garibaldi Street Jacksonville, Florida 32210 Etats-Unis

Below the envelope, in blue ink, the compiler has captioned in pen with a circled “1”:

Wedding Invitation of Dee Corbell and Claud[e] [Aimé-]Gramond ①

[The wedding announcement card itself is mounted on p415; the marriage took place 28 March 1972 at Corbeil-Essonnes, France. The return-address surname is Gramond (the bridegroom’s family); Dee Corbell is Amy’s granddaughter, daughter of Emma Dee Walker Corbell.]

Upper right — obituary of Amy FitzSimons Walker, The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville, Monday, December 3, 1973:

Two masthead strips pasted in series above the clipping:

THE FLORIDA TIMES-UNION, JACKSONVILLE, MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1973

24 — Jacksonville Journal, Monday, December 3, 1973

The clipping below, headed DEATH NOTICES:

WALKER — Funeral services for Mrs. Amy FitzSimons Walker, widow of James Pickens Walker, editor of The Florid[a Times-Union], will be held at the graveside in Evergreen Cemetery this afternoon. The Rev. Stanley Bullock, rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd, will officiate. Funeral services [will be at] 2:30 p.m. Monday. Home of Orlando is [—] [ar]rangements. Mrs. Walker [died in an] Orlando hospital Saturday after a [long] illness. She was 85. [A native of] Charleston, S.C., and [made her home in] Jacksonville for more [than 40 years be]fore moving to Orlando [in 1972]. Walker was a [communicant of the] Church of the Good [Shepherd] and was a member of [the National Society] of Colonial Dames [of America], an honorary life member of the [Se]quana Country Club. [Survivors include] a daughter, Mrs. Mary [Ann Walker McEwan of] Orlando; a sister, Mrs. [—] of Charleston, S.C.; [grandchildren] and a great-grand[son. The family re]quests that flowers [be omitted].

Pencilled beneath the clipping:

Died — Dec. 1, 1973

Upper right — handwritten correction note (blue marker, in a modern hand):

Amy FitzSimons Walker, the compiler of this book, requested that she only have a small notice in the obituary column when she died.

The notice was in error. It should have read that she was the widow of James Pickens Walker, a former executive of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, and mother of James Pickens Walker, Jr., a former news editor of the Florida Times-Union.

[The annotator is correcting the obituary’s confusion of the two James Pickens Walkers: the husband (Sr., 1883–1960, “Puck”) was an Atlantic Coast Line Railroad executive; the son (Jr., 1912–1969) was the Florida Times-Union news editor. The Times-Union compositor garbled the two and made the father into the newspaperman.]

Center — obituary of Mary Ann Walker McEwan, Sentinel Star, Orlando, Monday, February 10, 1975:

Header strip: 6—B Sentinel Star Orlando, Florida Monday, February 10, 1975. Below it, two columns reporting the same death.

Left column (long form):

McEWAN, MRS. MARY ANN WALKER — Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Ann Walker McEwan of 1129 S. Osceola St., who passed away Saturday, will be held in the Carey Hand Chapel Tuesday at 2:00 P.M. with Father Robert A. Risner of St. Mary of the Angels Episcopal Church officiating. A native of Charleston, S. Carolina, Mrs. McEwan came to Orlando in 1941 from Jacksonville, Fla. She was a member of the Junior League and the Rosalind Club both of Orlando, Colonial Dames of America, and the Cathedral Church of St. Luke’s Episcopal of Orlando. Survivors, daughter, Mrs. Nancy McEwan Green of Orlando; two sons, Mr. Christopher G. McEwan of Columbia Falls, Montana and Mr. James W. McEwan of Orlando, two grandsons. The family requests that donations be made to one’s favorite charity. Arrangements are under the direction of the Franklin Cole Funeral Directors, Carey Hand Chapel 36 W. Pine St. Orlando, Fla.

Right column (shorter recasting):

Mrs. Mary Ann W. McEwan

Mrs. Mary Ann Walker McEwan, 1129 S. Osceola St. Orlando, died Saturday. A native of Charleston, S.C., she moved to Orlando in 1941 from Jacksonville. She was a member of the Junior League of Orlando, Rosalind Club, Colonial Dames of America. Survivors: daughter, Nancy Green, Orlando; sons, Christopher G. Columbia Falls, Mont., James W. Orlando; two grandsons, Carey Hand Chapel, Franklin-Cole Funeral Directors.

Pencilled beneath:

Died Feb. 7, 1975

Lower left — sealed grey-blue pamphlet:

A folded grey-blue paper packet sealed with a green wax seal at the center of the front face. A small pencilled “1972” appears at the lower left corner of the packet. At the lower right of the packet, a faintly typed legend with a cursive ink signature beneath:

CHILDHOOD REMINISCENCES

Amy Perry FitzSimons (signed)

[A copy of Amy FitzSimons Walker’s typescript memoir of her childhood, sealed and signed by her. The “1972” date is the year before her death. Referred to elsewhere in the album; this copy was apparently left unopened by the page-maker.]

Lower right — Barbour Democrat clipping (undated):

A short single-column notice with bold masthead.

THE BARBOUR DEMOCRAT

Word was received this week from Mrs. J. Pickens Walker, Jr., of Jacksonville, Fla., concerning the death of her sister-in-law, Mary Ann Walker McEwan of Orlando, Fla. Mrs. McEwan was the niece of the late Mrs. Ann Modisette and the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. Pickens Walker, Sr.

Last spring, Mrs. Ewan suffered a fall and was later paralyzed and did not recover from this. She died on February 7.

[The Barbour Democrat is a Philippi, West Virginia, weekly — printing the notice through the connection of Mrs. Ann Modisette, evidently a relative of Ann Seymour Knight (Mrs. J. Pickens Walker Jr.). “Mrs. Ewan” in the second paragraph is a typesetter’s error for “Mrs. McEwan.”]

Far lower right — Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville, Thursday, February 13, 1975:

Header strip: FLORIDA TIMES-UNION, JACKSONVILLE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1975. Below, the obituary in two stacks:

McEwan Funeral Held Here

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Ann Walker McEwan, a former resident of Jacksonville, were held Tuesday in Evergreen Cemetery in Jacksonville with the Rev. Robert A. Risner, rector of St. Mary’s Of-the-Angels Episcopal Church in Orlando, officiating.

Mrs. McEwan died Saturday in Orlando, Feb. 7.

Mrs. McEwan was the sister of the late Pickens Walker, who was for many years the news editor of The Florida Times-Union.

A native of Charleston, S.C., she was the daughter of the late Amy F. and James Pickens Walker. Mr. Walker was a director of Florida Publishing Co. and an employe of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.

Mrs. McEwan lived in Jacksonville and Savannah prior to moving to Orlando in 1941.

In Orlando, she was a member of the Junior League and the Rosalind Club. She was a communicant of St. Luke’s Episcopal Cathedral in Orlando.

Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Nancy McEwan Green of Orlando; two sons, Christopher G. McEwan of Columbus Falls, Mont., and James W. McEwan of Orlando; a granddaughter; and two grandsons.