OBIT: Calvin A. WALKER, 1948, native of Somerset County, PA

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CALVIN A. WALKER

  Dr. Calvin A. Walker, 73, noted San Francisco surgeon and clubman, passed 
away, May 18, at his home in San Francisco, following a heart attack.  He was a 
native of Summit Twp., born May 11, 1875, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Fred 
Walker, residents of the Berkley Mills community.
  He was graduated from the Meese normal school in Meyersdale and later went to 
San Francisco where he attended medical school, receiving his doctor's degree at 
Cooper Medical College (now Stanford Medical school) in 1905.
  Four years later he married Miss Zella Zee Adair of San Francisco.  For a time 
he taught in the public schools of Marin County, and was connected with the U.S. 
Customs office, before becoming a doctor.
  He entered general surgical practice in 1905 and in 1911 became associated 
with the medical department of the Market Street Railway.  He joined the medical 
staff of the Southern Pacific Hospital in 1914, and became chief surgeon of the 
Southern Pacific Company, from which position he retired on his 70th birthday.  
He was also a director of the St. Francis Hospital.
  During World War I, he served as a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps and 
from August 1918 to February 1919 he commanded a field hospital at Camp 
Sheridan, Ala.
  Dr. Walker was a member of the San Francisco Medical Association, the American 
Medical Association and a Fellow in the American College of Surgeons.  He was a 
member of the Bohemian Club, several other fraternities, the American Legion and 
Masonic orders, including the F. & A. M., Knights Templar and the Nobles of the 
Mystic Shrine.
  Surviving relatives besides his wife are a nephew and a niece, C. Edgar Musser 
and Mary Richmond of San Jose, Calif.  Interment, after a Masonic funeral, was 
made in Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, near San Francisco.

Meyersdale Republican, June 10, 1948