Obituary clipping: 'News Editor Walker Dies; Rites Today' for J. Pickens Walker Jr.
Book 2, Page 251 ·1969
Transcription
A newspaper clipping headed in bold:
News Editor Walker Dies; Rites Today
J. Pickens Walker Jr., 56, news editor of The Florida Times-Union for more than 20 years and a member of its news staff for 29 years, died at his home at 4275 Garibaldi Ave., Thursday morning after a long illness.
Mr. Walker was born in Charleston, S.C., the son of Mrs. Amy FitzSimons Walker and the late James Pickens Walker. The family moved to Jacksonville when he was a child and he attended school here.
After being graduated from Washington and Lee University in 1933 he worked as a reporter for the Savannah (Ga.) Morning News. He joined The Times-Union in 1939 as assistant state news editor. He had lived in Jacksonville more than 30 years.
A sailing enthusiast, Mr. Walker was an honorary life member of the Florida Yacht Club and was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. He was a communicant of the Church of the Good Shepherd (Episcopal).
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. today at the chapel of Kyle-McLellan Funeral Home with Rev. Harry Douglas, rector of Good Shepherd assisted by Rev. John Bell of St. Peter’s Chapel, officiating. Burial will follow in Evergreen Cemetery. The family requests that flowers be omitted.
Mr. Walker is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ann Knight Walker; his mother, Mrs. Amy F. Walker, of Jacksonville; a sister, Mrs. O. B. McEwan of Orlando; and several nieces and nephews.
A head-and-shoulders photographic portrait at the lower right of the clipping, captioned:
J. Pickens Walker Jr.
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. Pickens Walker Jr. at the lower right, captioned. A date is written in blue ballpoint along the upper right margin: ‘Jan. 2, 1969’.
A second obituary for the compiler’s only son — a parallel clipping to page 250, from a different paper. “Mrs. O. B. McEwan of Orlando” is his sister Mary Ann Walker McEwan, Hunter McEwan’s grandmother; she would survive her brother by only six years.