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Submitted: 1/6/22 • Approved: 1/6/22 • Last Updated: 1/9/22 • R479590-G0-S3
March 22, 1903-July 17, 1944
In Loving Memory
Please see Walker Family Marker
*Photo, courtesy of Robert L. Jones
*Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services were to be held at The Wheeler Baptist church this (Thursday) afternoon for Frank Walker, former Wheeler county man who died Monday at his home at Port Arthur.
Walker, who was 41 years old, was the son of Mrs. F.E. Walker, who resides southeast of Wheeler. At the time of his death he was Secretary-Treasurer of the Texas Steel and Manufacturing Co. and was formerly connected with the H.R. Hudson estate of Oklahoma City and Brownsville.
Besides his mother he is survived by one sister, Miss Stacey Walker of Dallas; and four brothers, Malcom of Locust Grove, Cash of Briscoe and Huffman and Norris who are in the armed forces; his wife and one son.
The body arrived by rail in Shamrock yesterday and was brought to the family home where it will lay in state until time of the funeral.
Burial will be in the Wheeler Cemetery.
(Published in The Wheeler Times, Wheeler, Texas, Volume XI Number 32, Thursday, July 20, 1944, Page 1)
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Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, Marriage Index, 1889-1951
Name: Frank A. Walker
Spouse Name: Elizabeth P. Goodart
Marriage Date: 19 Oct 1925
Marriage Place: Oklahoma, Oklahoma, USA
Notes: From Oklahoma County Marriage Records 1889-1951 Book 52, Pg 518
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Frank Albyon Walker
Death Date: 17 Jul 1944
Death County: Jefferson
Certificate: 34189
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Frank Albyon Walker
Birth Date: 22 Mar 1903
Birth Place: Bonita, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Port Arthur, Jefferson, Texas
Father: Edwin Albyon Walker
Mother: Sarah Emmaline Reed
Age at Death: 41
Death Date: 17 Jul 1944
Death Place: Port Arthur, Jefferson, Texas, USA
Contributed on 1/6/22
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