Notes:

Guelph City Directory
. 1890 - Walker, Edward, machinist, 301 East Ave. N
. 1889 - Walker, Edward, railroad employee, House xx Oliver off Queen.

. 1910 Jan 22 - St. Clair-Wexofrd Michigan Marriage Register #6601
Edward R Walker, Age 45/1865, Canada, Res. Detroit, Insurance Adjustor, Number of times married: TWO
s/o Margaret Mahler & Edward Walker,
married at Lawton, Michigan to Isabelle B Halstead [Holstead?], 28/ 1882, Lawton, MI., bookkeeper
d/o Spencer Halstead & Julia Whalen.

OBITUARY 1 & 2:
. 1912 - Ed Walker Drops Dead in a Cafe, Well known man about town victim of apoplexy. Was drinking with a women when the end came. A woman left Ed Walker's side at a table in a wine room yesterday afternoon, and Death unannounced stalked in and took her place. Ed R Walker, man about town, bon vivant and raconteur died suddenly from natural causes the coroner concluded. The end came in a dingy wine room at 289 Larned street.
He had money, lots of it and he spent it freely. So freely in fact that the gossips are saying today that Mrs Walker entered strenuous objections that he was gone.

... Three Women, his wife and mother & his companion at the tie of his death are prostrate by his death. At the home, 32 Palmer ave. east, the wife & mother refused to believe that a strange woman was with Walker when he dropped died in then wine room. She is a prominent socially and bears an untarnished reputation. Funeral of Walker will be held from the home Thursday.
Ref: Detroit News.

. 1912 Oct 1 Tues. - Dead In Wine Room, Woman Disappears, Well known Detroit man's body found in place over saloon.
Edward R Walker, 32 Palmer Ave West, well known Detroit insurance adjuster, wealthy clubman & one of the principal figures in a divorce suit a few years ago is dead under strange circumstances, a few minutes after being in the company of a fashionably dressed woman whose identity has not been discovered.
His death took place in a wine room over the saloon of James McCallum, 289 Larned St E, Mr. Walker had driven to the place in his automobile, accompanied by the woman & had order a drink. Ten minutes later when the spoon keeper returned to the room togged the empty glasses he found Walker, alone and dead, his body stretched on the floor.
He was a member of the firm of Craig, Wright, Walker & Arden with offices in the Majestic building.
corner Burgess on arrival made an examination of the body & decided that Walker died of apoplexy & that there was nothing usurious in the cause of death. Detective John Steinhebel, representing the police department in the investigation thereupon discontinued further inquiry.
Walker was divorced by his first wife Minnie Taylor Walker on Jan 19, 1910. She was prominent in Detroit society, a member of the Central Christian church & when the decree was granted, moved to Denver. This has been her residence since. A boy Vernon, now 18 years old, is the result of the union. It is understood that the divorce was mutually agreeable. The records show that there were married in Stanton, Mich. Walker's marriage to his 2nd & last wife took place about 2 months are the divorce was granted. She was formerly a stenographer employed by Frank Smith at the Winton garage.
Ref: Kalamazoo Gazette, published 1912.10.2. - - -

Died:
289 Larned St. COD: Apoplexy

Edward married Isabelle MINNIE BELLE LARUE on 6 Jun 1891 in Stanton, Michigan. Isabelle was born on 21 Nov 1859 in Angola, Scott Twp., Steuben Co., Indiana; died on 1 Jul 1941 in Los Angeles, California; was buried in Inglewood Park Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Vernon is the son of Minnie Belle LaRue & Edward R Walker.

. 1923 Jul 5 - An American special effects artist and cinematographer. He was nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Special Effects. He worked on more than 220 films during his career, starting out as a head cameraman for Otis B. Thayer's Art-O-Graf Film Company in 1919. Bio by Kaleigh Jones-Clark.

. 1945 Camera Ace. Detroit Rises to Top in Hollywood as Expert in Trick Photography, By Jerry Ross.
Hollywood When it comes to magical sills, the folks who pull rabbits & bird out of hats will have to yield ground whenever Vernon L Walker, of Detroit, draws on his store of camera pics or motion picture. ferns, as he is called by his care cronies, heads the Special Effects Dept. at RKO studios.
Whenever there is some sort of storm, battle, or explosion needed in a scene, Walker is called into devise the desired effect so that Mr Mrs Movie Fan won't known the difference anyway. "We Really don't try to fool the public", explained the man who first learned about cameras when he was a schoolboy in Detroit. "The only time we dub-in our tricks is when the locale is inaccessible for us to shoot with our cameras or when it endangers members of the cast. Without the correct camera angles, the tick dubbing in & carefully planned methods of creating desired effects, the picture might do a blip back at the box offices.
Walker was born in Detroit some 50 odd years ago. As a young boy getting his education in local public schools & the Detroit University School, he displayed a deep interest in the movies & camera which were somebody to become his livelihood. "I used all my spending money in those days, going to the Detroit picture shows, the heave set, jovial RKO executive recalled. It was really in Denver that laker began his photographic career. He help pioneer the newsreel field in Colorado & Wyoming. Later he returned to Detroit where he became a free-lance newsreel photographer for Pathe News. He is credited with having turned the crank on some of the historic events in the city.
In 1919 the soft-spoken Walker, after a tour of Army duty, moved into the Hollywood scene as a Pathe newsreel man. He later worked with Mack Sennett, where he acquired his special effects kills, then Warner Brothers. At the latter studio he became one of the industry's first sound cameramen & shot Al Jolson's historic,The jazz Singer. Walker has been with RKO since 1930.
He & his wife live in Balboa, a beach town several miles from Hollywood. Walker's special hobby is boating & he is an official of several California yacht clubs.
Photo gray hair man in a pinstriped jacket, white shirt, & tie. He is apparently a movie script. Film canisters are in the background.
Re: Detroit Free Press.

. Obituary: Vernon L Walker
1948 Mar 14 - Masonic funeral services for Vernon L Walker, 53y. Old photographic expert who died at his Balboa Island home Sunday, will be conduct at 11 am tomorrow in Grace Chapel, Inglewood Park Centre, Walker a former RKO studios photographer & onetime commodore of Hollywood Yacht Club, leaves his widow, Mrs Mary Alice Walker, a daughter, Mrs. Don Pickard, 2 brothers, Maurice & Pierre Walker.
Ref: Los Angeles Times Newspaper.

Verify identity & if he is V F Walker, JUNIOR. ?
. 1950 Jan 25, Vernon Walker Presented highest Award
Harbor District Boy Scout commissioner Vernon Walker was presented with the Silver Beaver award, scouting's highest honor to an adult leader at the 35th annual meeting of the Lost Angeles Area Council of the Boy Scouts of American held last night at the Ambassador Hotel in LA. 12 other adult leaders throughout the LA.
Black & white photo of Vernon shows a middle age man, dark hair, clean shaven, suit jacket with a white shirt & tie.
. 1950 Jun 23, Photo of Vernon Walker inspected the anchor Parol of Harbor District Boy Scout Jamboree Group 8. - also a photo of Scout Robert Walker in the photo.

Vernon L Walker, long identified with community civic work & in change of Coast Fisheries accounting department, was elected President Wilmington Rotary club for 1952-3.

. 1952 Jun 30 - [Dark group photo is not completely clear which is Veron.] President Vernon Walker receive the Wilmington Rotary Club gavel from outing President Crandall, at a dinner dance at the Lakewood country club Sat. night. Over 300 member, families & friends . Highlight of the dinner dance program were numerous piano selections by popular piano virtuoso, Liberace.

. 1954 Jan 11, Vernon Walker had Local Red Cross Drive, Vernon Walker, of Coast Fisheries, division of Quaker Oats, today accepted the chairmanship of the Wilmington Area 1954 fund campaign for the American Red Corps.
Walker is auditor & controller of Coast Fisheries with whom he had been connected for the last 17 days. A resident of the Harbor district since 1923, he has ben active in the Boy S outs of America for 15 years. currently, Walker is serving as chairman n of camping& outdoor activities of the Boy Scouts.
All 4 of his boys, Robert, 17, Darryl 12, Russell,10 & Donald - are in the Scouts. Walker is particularly interested in extending the Red Cross funds for more gamma globulin to aid in the prevention of polio.

. 1957 Aug 27 - Vernon Walker Names Fund Campaign Auditor of the Harbor Osteopathic Hospital.
Ref: Wilmington Daily Press Journal, Cal. - - -

Buried:
Los Angeles. Plot Lot 1768.4

Vernon married Lottie Jane CARROLL on 13 Feb 1916 in Atlanta, Fulton Co., Georgia. Lottie was born on 5 Mar 1894 in Cedartown, Polk Co., Georgia; died on 11 Jun 1942 in Los Angeles, California; was buried in Forest Lawn MemorialPark. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Vernon married Mrs. Mary Alice (Vernon) WALKER est 1931-35. Mrs. was born in 1908 in California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Laura is the daughter of Lottie J Carroll & Vernon LaFollette Walker.

Birth:


Died:
Manhattan Beach, LA, Cal.

Family/Spouse: DONald Curtis PICKARD. DONald was born on 15 Jul 1912 in Yakima, Yakima Co., Washington; died on 22 Jun 1993 in Los Angeles, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]