She was the daughter of Hosea Alonzo Potter and Margaret May Hiller. Her siblings were Blanch and Berniece.
Marguerite Potter was born in Fort Scott, Kansas and grew up in Indiahoma, Oklahoma. She attended high school in Lawton and studied at the University of Oklahoma, where she was a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority, and was elected as the university's 'Sooner Queen'. She graduated 1922 with a degree in Sociology.
She married, at the time a Lieutenant, Kenneth Newton Walker 26 September 1922 at Lawton, Oklahoma. Together, they had two sons. They moved around to the various bases where he was stationed during his lengthy Army-Air Forces career as a pilot in WWI and WWII. Their marriage unfortunately ended in divorce. Kenneth Newton Walker was later promoted to Brigadier General in charge of the 5th Bomber Command. He was lost 5 January 1943 in a raid over Rabaul, New Britain, aboard the B-17F #41-24458 'San Antonio Rose', and neither the crew nor the aircraft has ever been found. General Walker was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Marguerite had moved to Spokane, Washington working as a director at the Air Force convalescent home. Later, she moved to Santa Clara County, San Jose, Palo Alto, Los Gatos, California and for a time in Ontario, Canada. She is known to have especially loved the gardens at the Montalvo Estate in Los Gatos, California.
Marguerite Potter was born in Fort Scott, Kansas and grew up in Indiahoma, Oklahoma. She attended high school in Lawton and studied at the University of Oklahoma, where she was a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority, and was elected as the university's 'Sooner Queen'. She graduated 1922 with a degree in Sociology.
She married, at the time a Lieutenant, Kenneth Newton Walker 26 September 1922 at Lawton, Oklahoma. Together, they had two sons. They moved around to the various bases where he was stationed during his lengthy Army-Air Forces career as a pilot in WWI and WWII. Their marriage unfortunately ended in divorce. Kenneth Newton Walker was later promoted to Brigadier General in charge of the 5th Bomber Command. He was lost 5 January 1943 in a raid over Rabaul, New Britain, aboard the B-17F #41-24458 'San Antonio Rose', and neither the crew nor the aircraft has ever been found. General Walker was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Marguerite had moved to Spokane, Washington working as a director at the Air Force convalescent home. Later, she moved to Santa Clara County, San Jose, Palo Alto, Los Gatos, California and for a time in Ontario, Canada. She is known to have especially loved the gardens at the Montalvo Estate in Los Gatos, California.
She was the daughter of Hosea Alonzo Potter and Margaret May Hiller. Her siblings were Blanch and Berniece.
Marguerite Potter was born in Fort Scott, Kansas and grew up in Indiahoma, Oklahoma. She attended high school in Lawton and studied at the University of Oklahoma, where she was a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority, and was elected as the university's 'Sooner Queen'. She graduated 1922 with a degree in Sociology.
She married, at the time a Lieutenant, Kenneth Newton Walker 26 September 1922 at Lawton, Oklahoma. Together, they had two sons. They moved around to the various bases where he was stationed during his lengthy Army-Air Forces career as a pilot in WWI and WWII. Their marriage unfortunately ended in divorce. Kenneth Newton Walker was later promoted to Brigadier General in charge of the 5th Bomber Command. He was lost 5 January 1943 in a raid over Rabaul, New Britain, aboard the B-17F #41-24458 'San Antonio Rose', and neither the crew nor the aircraft has ever been found. General Walker was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Marguerite had moved to Spokane, Washington working as a director at the Air Force convalescent home. Later, she moved to Santa Clara County, San Jose, Palo Alto, Los Gatos, California and for a time in Ontario, Canada. She is known to have especially loved the gardens at the Montalvo Estate in Los Gatos, California.
Marguerite Potter was born in Fort Scott, Kansas and grew up in Indiahoma, Oklahoma. She attended high school in Lawton and studied at the University of Oklahoma, where she was a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority, and was elected as the university's 'Sooner Queen'. She graduated 1922 with a degree in Sociology.
She married, at the time a Lieutenant, Kenneth Newton Walker 26 September 1922 at Lawton, Oklahoma. Together, they had two sons. They moved around to the various bases where he was stationed during his lengthy Army-Air Forces career as a pilot in WWI and WWII. Their marriage unfortunately ended in divorce. Kenneth Newton Walker was later promoted to Brigadier General in charge of the 5th Bomber Command. He was lost 5 January 1943 in a raid over Rabaul, New Britain, aboard the B-17F #41-24458 'San Antonio Rose', and neither the crew nor the aircraft has ever been found. General Walker was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Marguerite had moved to Spokane, Washington working as a director at the Air Force convalescent home. Later, she moved to Santa Clara County, San Jose, Palo Alto, Los Gatos, California and for a time in Ontario, Canada. She is known to have especially loved the gardens at the Montalvo Estate in Los Gatos, California.
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