Corporal, U.S. Army, WWII (7th Infantry Division)
C.I.B., Purple Heart (Okinawa), Bronze Star w/V device
Lay Preacher
Kenneth John is the son of John Rupert and Edna Sofia Jacobson Walker. His mother, Edna, while living in Los Angeles and 7 1/2 months pregnant, went to visit her parents in Minneapolis. She ended up giving birth to Kenneth while there. Kenneth finished school and graduated from Inglewood High School, Inglewood, California, Class of '46, after his return from the war in the Pacific in 1945. He left the service in April 1948 at the insistance of his fiancee, Dolores Fay Mosteller.
He was the husband of (1) Dolores Fay Mosteller (m. 1948; d. 1965), and (2) Lillian Jessie Reischke (m. 1979). He had 3 children with Dolores; Stephen Kent, Shelley Lynn and Kevin Charles Walker. Kenneth and Lillian had no children.
Even though I hadn't seen my father for over 30 years, I remember him for his love of sports and his athleticism. When we were kids growing up in the North Torrance/Gardena area of Los Angeles County, he would take as many of the neighborhood kids as wanted to go, all pile into our 1948 Plymouth coupe, and we would go the three blocks to El Camino Jr. College, form up teams and play whatever sport was being played at the time. We all grew up with a love of, and the ability to play most sports thanks to him.
Looking back, I regret most of all, not having my father in my life. That was my choice and it gnaws on me every day.
Dad was a recovered alcholic, and a born again Christian. He spent the last 25 years of his life, 18 of them with his wife Lillian at his side, as a lay-minister, ministering to the homeless in food-kitchens and rescue missions across the west and northwest United States. Kenneth was the Assistant Director of Union Gospel Mission's in Yakima, Washington and Salem, Oregon. He met Lillian while doing his work with the Lord, and he finally settled with Lillian, in West Salem, Oregon, where they both lived until their deaths. Kenneth and Lillian are buried together at Willamette National Cemetery near Portland, Oregon.
C.I.B., Purple Heart (Okinawa), Bronze Star w/V device
Lay Preacher
Kenneth John is the son of John Rupert and Edna Sofia Jacobson Walker. His mother, Edna, while living in Los Angeles and 7 1/2 months pregnant, went to visit her parents in Minneapolis. She ended up giving birth to Kenneth while there. Kenneth finished school and graduated from Inglewood High School, Inglewood, California, Class of '46, after his return from the war in the Pacific in 1945. He left the service in April 1948 at the insistance of his fiancee, Dolores Fay Mosteller.
He was the husband of (1) Dolores Fay Mosteller (m. 1948; d. 1965), and (2) Lillian Jessie Reischke (m. 1979). He had 3 children with Dolores; Stephen Kent, Shelley Lynn and Kevin Charles Walker. Kenneth and Lillian had no children.
Even though I hadn't seen my father for over 30 years, I remember him for his love of sports and his athleticism. When we were kids growing up in the North Torrance/Gardena area of Los Angeles County, he would take as many of the neighborhood kids as wanted to go, all pile into our 1948 Plymouth coupe, and we would go the three blocks to El Camino Jr. College, form up teams and play whatever sport was being played at the time. We all grew up with a love of, and the ability to play most sports thanks to him.
Looking back, I regret most of all, not having my father in my life. That was my choice and it gnaws on me every day.
Dad was a recovered alcholic, and a born again Christian. He spent the last 25 years of his life, 18 of them with his wife Lillian at his side, as a lay-minister, ministering to the homeless in food-kitchens and rescue missions across the west and northwest United States. Kenneth was the Assistant Director of Union Gospel Mission's in Yakima, Washington and Salem, Oregon. He met Lillian while doing his work with the Lord, and he finally settled with Lillian, in West Salem, Oregon, where they both lived until their deaths. Kenneth and Lillian are buried together at Willamette National Cemetery near Portland, Oregon.
Corporal, U.S. Army, WWII (7th Infantry Division)
C.I.B., Purple Heart (Okinawa), Bronze Star w/V device
Lay Preacher
Kenneth John is the son of John Rupert and Edna Sofia Jacobson Walker. His mother, Edna, while living in Los Angeles and 7 1/2 months pregnant, went to visit her parents in Minneapolis. She ended up giving birth to Kenneth while there. Kenneth finished school and graduated from Inglewood High School, Inglewood, California, Class of '46, after his return from the war in the Pacific in 1945. He left the service in April 1948 at the insistance of his fiancee, Dolores Fay Mosteller.
He was the husband of (1) Dolores Fay Mosteller (m. 1948; d. 1965), and (2) Lillian Jessie Reischke (m. 1979). He had 3 children with Dolores; Stephen Kent, Shelley Lynn and Kevin Charles Walker. Kenneth and Lillian had no children.
Even though I hadn't seen my father for over 30 years, I remember him for his love of sports and his athleticism. When we were kids growing up in the North Torrance/Gardena area of Los Angeles County, he would take as many of the neighborhood kids as wanted to go, all pile into our 1948 Plymouth coupe, and we would go the three blocks to El Camino Jr. College, form up teams and play whatever sport was being played at the time. We all grew up with a love of, and the ability to play most sports thanks to him.
Looking back, I regret most of all, not having my father in my life. That was my choice and it gnaws on me every day.
Dad was a recovered alcholic, and a born again Christian. He spent the last 25 years of his life, 18 of them with his wife Lillian at his side, as a lay-minister, ministering to the homeless in food-kitchens and rescue missions across the west and northwest United States. Kenneth was the Assistant Director of Union Gospel Mission's in Yakima, Washington and Salem, Oregon. He met Lillian while doing his work with the Lord, and he finally settled with Lillian, in West Salem, Oregon, where they both lived until their deaths. Kenneth and Lillian are buried together at Willamette National Cemetery near Portland, Oregon.
C.I.B., Purple Heart (Okinawa), Bronze Star w/V device
Lay Preacher
Kenneth John is the son of John Rupert and Edna Sofia Jacobson Walker. His mother, Edna, while living in Los Angeles and 7 1/2 months pregnant, went to visit her parents in Minneapolis. She ended up giving birth to Kenneth while there. Kenneth finished school and graduated from Inglewood High School, Inglewood, California, Class of '46, after his return from the war in the Pacific in 1945. He left the service in April 1948 at the insistance of his fiancee, Dolores Fay Mosteller.
He was the husband of (1) Dolores Fay Mosteller (m. 1948; d. 1965), and (2) Lillian Jessie Reischke (m. 1979). He had 3 children with Dolores; Stephen Kent, Shelley Lynn and Kevin Charles Walker. Kenneth and Lillian had no children.
Even though I hadn't seen my father for over 30 years, I remember him for his love of sports and his athleticism. When we were kids growing up in the North Torrance/Gardena area of Los Angeles County, he would take as many of the neighborhood kids as wanted to go, all pile into our 1948 Plymouth coupe, and we would go the three blocks to El Camino Jr. College, form up teams and play whatever sport was being played at the time. We all grew up with a love of, and the ability to play most sports thanks to him.
Looking back, I regret most of all, not having my father in my life. That was my choice and it gnaws on me every day.
Dad was a recovered alcholic, and a born again Christian. He spent the last 25 years of his life, 18 of them with his wife Lillian at his side, as a lay-minister, ministering to the homeless in food-kitchens and rescue missions across the west and northwest United States. Kenneth was the Assistant Director of Union Gospel Mission's in Yakima, Washington and Salem, Oregon. He met Lillian while doing his work with the Lord, and he finally settled with Lillian, in West Salem, Oregon, where they both lived until their deaths. Kenneth and Lillian are buried together at Willamette National Cemetery near Portland, Oregon.
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