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Submitted: 1/6/22 • Approved: 1/7/22 • Last Updated: 1/10/22 • R479605-G0-S3
QUARTERMASTER SECOND CLASS PETTY OFFICER US Navy
World War II
September 20, 1921-April 17, 1998
*Photo, courtesy of Robert L. Jones
*Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
WHEELER - Huffman Walker, 76, died Friday, April 17, 1998, in Kansas City, Mo.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday in First Baptist Church with the Rev. Toby Henson, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Wheeler Cemetery by Wright Funeral Home. Other arrangements were by McGilley & Hoge Johnson County Chapel.
Mr. Walker was born in Wheeler. He was a federal agency administrator. He received his bachelor of science degree in business at the University of Oklahoma in 1946. He did post-graduate work during 1946-47 and at the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1971.
He was a certified professional contracts manager. He worked as an assistant station agent for the Oklahoma Railway Co. in Oklahoma City from 1947-48. He also worked in various management positions for Pontiac Motor-GM in Kansas City, Mo.
Mr. Walker was president and owner of Rebonda Enterprises at Prairie Village, Kan., from 1965-67 and a contracting officer at Office Econ. Opportunity at Kansas City from 1967-73.
He served with the Navy Reserve from 1942-45 and was aboard the USS Gosselin, APD 126 in the Pacific during World War II.
Mr. Walker was a member of the Kansas Motor Car Dealers Association and its board of directors. He served as treasurer of the Sons of the Confederacy from 1967-98 and as president of the Kansas City chapter of the University of Oklahoma Alumni Association from 1991-98. He was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma.
He participated in and was an organizer of various Special Olympics in the Kansas City area and was a member of Village Presbyterian Church.
Survivors include a son, H. Reed Walker of Prairie Village, Kan.; two daughters, Rhonda Walker of Pompano Beach, Fla., and Rebecca A. Farrar of Robinson, Kan.; a brother, Norris C. Walker of Pampa; and a grandchild.
The family requests memorials be to the Wheeler Ex-Students and Teachers Association, P.O. Box 1194, Wheeler, Texas 79096; or a favorite charity.
Amarillo Globe-News, April 21, 1998
Please see Huffman Walker and Walker Family Marker
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