OBITUARY :
MISS MARY HELEN WALKER, last but one of an old and prominent family of Waynesboro, died Tuesday morning at 3:30 o'clock at her residence, at West Main street, aged 84 years. While death was caused by acute stomach trouble that began four weeks ago and since confined to bed. Miss Walker had been in fast failing health ever since the shock to her occasioned by the sudden death, on the 25th of last January, of her niece, Miss Florence Funk, who had made her home with her aunt since girlhood.
It is a noteworthy coincidence that Miss Walker should have passed away in the early hours of Memorial Day, a day especilly sacred to her by reason of its annual observance by Captain John E. Walker Post, Grand Army of the Republic, named for her brother who was killed at Atlanta, Ga., in 1864 when only 24 years old.
Miss Walker was the daughter of Dr. Thomas H. and Harriet (Coskrey) Walker and was born and always lived in the house in which she died. The only survivor of a family of twelve children is Mrs. Harriet Price who has made her home with her sister for a number of years. Miss Walker had been a member of the Presbyterian church since girlhood and was a charter member of the Woman's Relief Corps, an auxiliary of the G. A. R. in whose affairs she took an active interest until recent years. This attachment was not alone due to the fact that her brother's honored name is forever linked with the G. A. R. Post but for the reason also that four of her brother's were officers in the Union army during the Civil war and the remaining one, Dr. Sydenham Walker, was an army surgeon.
Miss Walker was a beautiful character. To a native dignity there was added a charm of manner and kindliness of heart that endeared her to an ever-widening circle of friends and admirers, while she always enjoyed the respect of the entire community. Her demise leaves a void in the social life of the town in which was long an ornament.
The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon at 4:30 at the home in charge of Rev. J. M. Rutherford. Interment in Burns Hill cemetery.
Source : The Record Herald Newspaper - Waynesboro, Franklin Co., Pennsylvania - Wednesday, May 31, 1922
Obituary provided by Melvin L. Halterman FAG # 47017310.
MISS MARY HELEN WALKER, last but one of an old and prominent family of Waynesboro, died Tuesday morning at 3:30 o'clock at her residence, at West Main street, aged 84 years. While death was caused by acute stomach trouble that began four weeks ago and since confined to bed. Miss Walker had been in fast failing health ever since the shock to her occasioned by the sudden death, on the 25th of last January, of her niece, Miss Florence Funk, who had made her home with her aunt since girlhood.
It is a noteworthy coincidence that Miss Walker should have passed away in the early hours of Memorial Day, a day especilly sacred to her by reason of its annual observance by Captain John E. Walker Post, Grand Army of the Republic, named for her brother who was killed at Atlanta, Ga., in 1864 when only 24 years old.
Miss Walker was the daughter of Dr. Thomas H. and Harriet (Coskrey) Walker and was born and always lived in the house in which she died. The only survivor of a family of twelve children is Mrs. Harriet Price who has made her home with her sister for a number of years. Miss Walker had been a member of the Presbyterian church since girlhood and was a charter member of the Woman's Relief Corps, an auxiliary of the G. A. R. in whose affairs she took an active interest until recent years. This attachment was not alone due to the fact that her brother's honored name is forever linked with the G. A. R. Post but for the reason also that four of her brother's were officers in the Union army during the Civil war and the remaining one, Dr. Sydenham Walker, was an army surgeon.
Miss Walker was a beautiful character. To a native dignity there was added a charm of manner and kindliness of heart that endeared her to an ever-widening circle of friends and admirers, while she always enjoyed the respect of the entire community. Her demise leaves a void in the social life of the town in which was long an ornament.
The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon at 4:30 at the home in charge of Rev. J. M. Rutherford. Interment in Burns Hill cemetery.
Source : The Record Herald Newspaper - Waynesboro, Franklin Co., Pennsylvania - Wednesday, May 31, 1922
Obituary provided by Melvin L. Halterman FAG # 47017310.
OBITUARY :
MISS MARY HELEN WALKER, last but one of an old and prominent family of Waynesboro, died Tuesday morning at 3:30 o'clock at her residence, at West Main street, aged 84 years. While death was caused by acute stomach trouble that began four weeks ago and since confined to bed. Miss Walker had been in fast failing health ever since the shock to her occasioned by the sudden death, on the 25th of last January, of her niece, Miss Florence Funk, who had made her home with her aunt since girlhood.
It is a noteworthy coincidence that Miss Walker should have passed away in the early hours of Memorial Day, a day especilly sacred to her by reason of its annual observance by Captain John E. Walker Post, Grand Army of the Republic, named for her brother who was killed at Atlanta, Ga., in 1864 when only 24 years old.
Miss Walker was the daughter of Dr. Thomas H. and Harriet (Coskrey) Walker and was born and always lived in the house in which she died. The only survivor of a family of twelve children is Mrs. Harriet Price who has made her home with her sister for a number of years. Miss Walker had been a member of the Presbyterian church since girlhood and was a charter member of the Woman's Relief Corps, an auxiliary of the G. A. R. in whose affairs she took an active interest until recent years. This attachment was not alone due to the fact that her brother's honored name is forever linked with the G. A. R. Post but for the reason also that four of her brother's were officers in the Union army during the Civil war and the remaining one, Dr. Sydenham Walker, was an army surgeon.
Miss Walker was a beautiful character. To a native dignity there was added a charm of manner and kindliness of heart that endeared her to an ever-widening circle of friends and admirers, while she always enjoyed the respect of the entire community. Her demise leaves a void in the social life of the town in which was long an ornament.
The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon at 4:30 at the home in charge of Rev. J. M. Rutherford. Interment in Burns Hill cemetery.
Source : The Record Herald Newspaper - Waynesboro, Franklin Co., Pennsylvania - Wednesday, May 31, 1922
Obituary provided by Melvin L. Halterman FAG # 47017310.
MISS MARY HELEN WALKER, last but one of an old and prominent family of Waynesboro, died Tuesday morning at 3:30 o'clock at her residence, at West Main street, aged 84 years. While death was caused by acute stomach trouble that began four weeks ago and since confined to bed. Miss Walker had been in fast failing health ever since the shock to her occasioned by the sudden death, on the 25th of last January, of her niece, Miss Florence Funk, who had made her home with her aunt since girlhood.
It is a noteworthy coincidence that Miss Walker should have passed away in the early hours of Memorial Day, a day especilly sacred to her by reason of its annual observance by Captain John E. Walker Post, Grand Army of the Republic, named for her brother who was killed at Atlanta, Ga., in 1864 when only 24 years old.
Miss Walker was the daughter of Dr. Thomas H. and Harriet (Coskrey) Walker and was born and always lived in the house in which she died. The only survivor of a family of twelve children is Mrs. Harriet Price who has made her home with her sister for a number of years. Miss Walker had been a member of the Presbyterian church since girlhood and was a charter member of the Woman's Relief Corps, an auxiliary of the G. A. R. in whose affairs she took an active interest until recent years. This attachment was not alone due to the fact that her brother's honored name is forever linked with the G. A. R. Post but for the reason also that four of her brother's were officers in the Union army during the Civil war and the remaining one, Dr. Sydenham Walker, was an army surgeon.
Miss Walker was a beautiful character. To a native dignity there was added a charm of manner and kindliness of heart that endeared her to an ever-widening circle of friends and admirers, while she always enjoyed the respect of the entire community. Her demise leaves a void in the social life of the town in which was long an ornament.
The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon at 4:30 at the home in charge of Rev. J. M. Rutherford. Interment in Burns Hill cemetery.
Source : The Record Herald Newspaper - Waynesboro, Franklin Co., Pennsylvania - Wednesday, May 31, 1922
Obituary provided by Melvin L. Halterman FAG # 47017310.
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