Mrs. Clyde Graves, well known former Butte resident and the sister of Postmaster General Frank C. Walker, died Wednesday in Boston, Mass., according to word received here. It was the third death in the postmaster general's family in the last two and one half months. Mrs. Graves, the former Mollie Walker, lived here until her marriage in 1934 to the late Clyde Graves, prominent Washington mining man, who died at their Spokane home in 1941. Mrs. Graves moved to Boston after her husband's death, and lived with her two sisters, Mrs. John W. Cotter and Mrs. J. J. McCarthy. The postmaster general's brother, Judge Thomas Walker, a native of Butte, died in New York last January 18, and his son-in-law, Captain Robert L. Ameno, was killed in action in Belgium December 30.
Mrs. Clyde Graves, well known former Butte resident and the sister of Postmaster General Frank C. Walker, died Wednesday in Boston, Mass., according to word received here. It was the third death in the postmaster general's family in the last two and one half months. Mrs. Graves, the former Mollie Walker, lived here until her marriage in 1934 to the late Clyde Graves, prominent Washington mining man, who died at their Spokane home in 1941. Mrs. Graves moved to Boston after her husband's death, and lived with her two sisters, Mrs. John W. Cotter and Mrs. J. J. McCarthy. The postmaster general's brother, Judge Thomas Walker, a native of Butte, died in New York last January 18, and his son-in-law, Captain Robert L. Ameno, was killed in action in Belgium December 30.
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