Obituary clipping: 'Veteran Editor J. P. Walker Dead At 56'
Book 2, Page 250 ·1969
Transcription
A newspaper clipping headed in large bold type:
Veteran Editor J. P. Walker Dead At 56
James Pickens Walker, Jr., news editor of The Florida Times-Union, died early this morning at his home, 4275 Garibaldi Ave., after an extended illness.
He would have celebrated his 57th birthday next Sunday.
Mr. Walker joined the Times-Union news staff as assistant state news editor in November 1939 after working as a reporter for the Savannah Morning News. He was 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.
He was graduated from Washington and Lee University in 1933 and was a member of Phi Gamma Delta, social fraternity; Omicron Delta Kappa, honorary; and Sigma, honorary leadership fraternity at W&L.
He was a member of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Episcopal, and was an honorary life member of the Florida Yacht Club.
Funeral services will be tomorrow at 11 a.m. at the Kyle-McLellan chapel. Officiating will be Rev. Harry B. Douglas, rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd, assisted by Rev. John Bell of St. Peter’s Chapel.
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 head-and-shoulders photographic portrait of J. P. Walker is inset in the middle of the clipping, captioned:
Walker
In blue ballpoint along the upper right edge of the clipping:
Jan. 2, 1969
AI Notes
A single newspaper clipping pasted to the album page. The clipping includes a head-and-shoulders portrait photograph of J. P. Walker captioned ‘Walker’. A date is written in blue ballpoint along the upper right margin: ‘Jan. 2, 1969’.
The deceased is the compiler Amy FitzSimons Walker’s only son, born 5 January 1912 in Charleston and known to the family as “Bo” or “Peck”; he died at his Garibaldi Avenue home on 2 January 1969, three days short of his 57th birthday. “Mrs. O. B. McEwen of Orlando” is his sister Mary Ann Walker McEwan (1918–1975), Hunter McEwan’s grandmother.