Obituaries:  J. C. Walker, Jr., Sabine Parish       W-426
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Sep 2, 1966
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Pfc. J. C. Walker, Jr. (Photo)

  Word was received here Saturday, that a Sabine Parish native
received fatal wounds as a result of small arms fire, while
engaged in combat in Viet Nam, Thursday, Aug. 25.

  Dead is Pfc. J. C. Walker Jr., 21.

  Pfc. Walker was graduated from Negreet High School, and inducted
into the Army last October. He took basic and special training
for Viet Nam at Fort Polk. On March 23, he was taken to
Shreveport en route to the war.

  Members of his family received word of his death Saturday, via
telephone, and then on Sunday, they received a telegram about it.
They talked with an official in Washington, D. C., Monday night,
and were told that Pfc. Walker's body should arrive in Many by
Friday.

  Warren Meadows Funeral Home of Many will be in charge of the
arrangements, which are incomplete until the body arrives.

  Survivors include his father, J. C. Walker Sr. of Jasper, Tex.;
his mother, Mrs. Doris Walker of Hemphill, Tex.; two brothers,
Benny Walker of Many, and Donnie Walker of Hemphill; three
sisters, Mrs. Gordon Oxley, Mrs. Tommy Cryer, and Mrs. Charles
Pilcher, all of Many; and his maternal grandmother, Mrs. May
Armstrong of Florien.