The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., September 26, 2002, page 18

MELVIN WALKER SR.

     Longtime county resident, Melvin "Buster" Walker, Sr., 84, died at his home in White Salmon on Friday, Sept. 20, 2002.
     He was born on May 6, 1918, in Huber, Ore., to Laura May (Hildenbrand) and Charles Earnest Walker. When he was three years old, Mr. Walker moved to Mt. Brook in the Snowden area of Klickitat County and attended the Mt. Brook School.
     He worked in the logging and timber industry, first for 19 years for Johnson & Kida, then with SDS until 1961.
     Mr. Walker was a social man who adored his children and grandchildren and liked drinking coffee and talking with friends and family. He loved music and dancing and would often call and sing at square dances in the area. He also enjoyed gardening, flowers and cooking.
     Surviving Mr.Walker are his children, Charlene Lemley, Glenwood, Beulah Dallas, White Salmon, Melva Ann McGraw, Dallesport, Melvin Walker, White Salmon, and George Walker, Chehalis; brother Cecil Carl Walker, White Salmon; 21 grandchildren and 35 great grandchildren; and his wonderful care-giver for the past eleven months, Dora Wilder. He was preceded in death by his wife, Margaret, brothers Ray, Dave and Walter; sisters Myrtle, Ruth, Dolly, Ida and Nora; and two grandsons Scott Dallas and Jerry Wayne McGraw.
     Funeral services for Mr. Walker will be held at 1 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 27, 2002, at Gardner Chapel in White Salmon with vault interment at the White Salmon Cemetery. Memorials in Mr. Walker's name may be made to Hospice of the Gorge, P.O. Box 36, Hood River, Ore., 97031. Gardner Funeral Home handled arrangements.

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