Obituary of Amy FitzSimons Walker, dated 1 December 1973
Book 2, Page 246 ·1973
Transcription
[Pencilled along the right margin in the compiler’s heir’s hand:]
DEC 1, 1973
[Fragment of preceding death notice visible at the top:]
…Thompson officiating. Interment will be in Old Still Cemetery near Hilliard.
WALKER—Funeral services for Mrs. Amy FitzSimons Walker, widow of James Pickens Walker, a former news editor of The Florida-Times Union, will be held at the graveside in Evergreen Cemetery this afternoon. The Rev. Stanley Bullock, rector of the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, will officiate. Funeral services will be held 2:30 p.m. Monday. Fairchild Funeral Home of Orlando is in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Walker died in an Orlando hospital Saturday after a long illness. She was 85. She was born in Charleston, S.C., and she had lived in Jacksonville for more than 40 years before moving to Orlando in 1972. Mrs. Walker was a communicant of the Church of the Good Shepherd and she was a member of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America. She was an honorary life member of the Timuquana Country Club. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Mary Ann McEwen of Orlando; a sister, Mrs. John Sosnowski of Charleston, S.C.; five grandchildren; and a great-grandson. The family requests that flowers be omitted.
[Beginning of next notice at the bottom edge:]
WHATLEY—Mrs. Josephine M. Whatley, 78, who lived at [continues off the clipping]
AI Notes
A newspaper death-notice clipping pasted to the album page, recording the death of Mrs. Amy FitzSimons Walker — the compiler of this scrapbook — at age 85. A pencilled date ‘DEC 1, 1973’ is written vertically along the right edge of the clipping. The clipping preserves a sliver of an unrelated preceding notice (‘…Thompson officiating. Interment will be in Old Still Cemetery near Hilliard.’) and the opening of a following notice for a Mrs. Josephine M. Whatley at the bottom edge.
This is the obituary of the compiler of this scrapbook — Amy Ann Perry FitzSimons Walker (b. Charleston, 4 February 1888; d. Orlando, 1 December 1973, aged 85). She assembled both bound albums and the loose-keepsakes book over the last six decades of her life, drawing on family papers descended through her paternal grandmother Susan Milliken Barker (wife of Dr. Christopher FitzSimons 3rd) and her great-great-aunt Catherine FitzSimons (the emigrant Christopher’s daughter, wife of James Henry Hammond). The surviving sister “Mrs. John Sosnowski of Charleston” is her younger sister Mary Annie FitzSimons (1899–1985). Widowed by her first husband, Donald McKay Allston of John’s Island (see pp238/240), she remarried John Sosnowski of Charleston around 1970. Her son James Pickens Walker Jr. had predeceased her in January 1969 (page 250); her surviving daughter Mary Ann Walker McEwan would follow her sixteen months later (page 247).