'Death Notices' clipping for Amy FitzSimons Walker, 1 December 1973
Book 2, Page 248 ·1973
Transcription
[Pencilled in dark blue at the top:]
DEC. 1, 1973
DEATH NOTICES
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.
WHATLEY—Mrs. Josephine M. Whatley, 78, who lived at 3629 Herschel St., died Wednesday in a Jacksonville ho[s]pital following a short illness. Sh[e was] a native of Massach[usetts] [clipping torn off — continues on adjacent column]
AI Notes
A second copy of the same Amy FitzSimons Walker death notice that appears on page 246, this one retaining the ‘DEATH NOTICES’ column header. A pencilled date ‘DEC. 1, 1973’ appears across the top in the compiler’s heir’s hand. The surviving sister named in the notice, ‘Mrs. John Sosnowski of Charleston,’ is Amy’s younger sister Mary Annie FitzSimons (1899–1985), who married first Donald McKay Allston of John’s Island and, around 1970 in widowhood, John Sosnowski of Charleston. A second clipping at the bottom shows the start of an adjacent notice for Mrs. Josephine M. Whatley of 3629 Herschel St., Jacksonville.