OBIT: Jacob J. WALKER, 1943, Shanksville, Somerset County, PA

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JACOB J. WALKER

Court Reporter Jacob J. Walker Laid to Rest

  Hundreds of people from Somerset and vicinity paid their last respects to the 
late Jacob J. Walker, for 41 years court stenographer of Somerset County, whose 
funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 4, at the home of his daughter, 
Mrs. R. D. Roy of Somerset.
  The pallbearers were members of the Somerset County Bar - A. M. Matthews, P. 
G. Cober, Henry H. Gress, Thomas F. Lansberry, Frank Orban and Paul E. C. Fike.
  All county officers, including Norman T. Boose and members of the bar, 
attended the services at the Roy home and were included in the funeral cortege 
to the Walker Cemetery in Shanksville, where the remains were laid to rest.
  The veteran court stenographer died at the age of 71, at the home of his 
daughter where he resided, Thursday afternoon, Oct. 28, following a cerebral 
hemorrhage, which he suffered a week previously.  Mr. Walker had been in ill 
health for several months but recently was able to return to his work.
  A son of Josiah and Sara (Larmon) Walker, he was born in Shanksville, Nov. 23, 
1871.  A brother, Joseph Walker, a retired Shanksville farmer, died Tuesday, 
Oct. 26.
  Mr. Walker was employed in the law offices of Kooser & Kooser prior to his 
appointment as court stenographer, 41 years ago.
  He also served for 18 years as secretary of the Somerset School Board.
  Mr. Walker was twice married.  His first wife Mabel (Brant) Walker, died 10 
years ago.  Surviving are his second wife, Hilda (Fleegie) Walker, and four 
children born to the first wife - Mrs. Robert Roy and Jacob J. Jr., both of 
Somerset; Mrs. Marguerite Price, manager of the Y.M.C.A. dining room in 
Johnstown, and Mrs. J. P. Cleaver, Johnstown, R.D. 7.  He also leaves 13 
grandchildren, a brother, Lewis Walker, Shanksville, and two sisters - Mrs. 
Eliza Croner, and Mrs. Catherine Lowery, Shanksville.
  The funeral services were conducted by Rev. I. Hess Wagner, D.D., pastor of 
the United Brethren Church.

Meyersdale Republican, November 4, 1943