Obituary of Mrs. Mary Ann Walker McEwan, Orlando, March 1975
Book 2, Page 247 ·1975
Transcription
[Pencilled vertically along the left margin:]
MARCH 7, 1975
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. Rizner 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.
AI Notes
A clipped newspaper death notice for Mrs. Mary Ann Walker McEwan of 1129 S. Osceola St., Orlando — the only daughter of Amy FitzSimons Walker (the compiler) and James Pickens Walker, whose mother had died sixteen months earlier (see page 246). A pencilled date ‘MARCH 7, 1975’ is written vertically along the left edge of the clipping. The surname appears as ‘McEwan’ throughout the notice, though the family also used the spelling ‘McEwen’ (cf. the survivor Nancy McEwen Green on page 244).
Mary Ann Walker McEwan (1916–March 1975) was the compiler’s only daughter and her last surviving child — her brother James Pickens Walker Jr. having died in 1969 (page 250) and the compiler herself in December 1973 (pages 246, 248). Her death within sixteen months of her mother’s effectively ends the line of direct stewards of this album in the compiler’s generation; thereafter the scrapbooks pass to her daughter Nancy McEwan Green (b. 1946), the namesake of “Nancy’s book.”