OBIT: Edison E. WALKER, 1941, native of Somerset County, PA

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EDISON E. WALKER

Tragic Death of Father of Drowned Son
Cruel Fate Strikes Twice in One Family in Less Than Seven Weeks

  On May 3, last, Francis, 19-year-old son of Edison E. Walker of East Somerset 
was drowned in the Trent National Park dam while trying out a kayak canoe of his 
own making.
  Just six and a half weeks later the father of the unfortunate youth also met a 
tragic death by the overturning of a State highway truck in which he was riding.
  Walker was fatally injured about 6:30 Tuesday evening, June 17, while 
assisting to move a State highway gasoline shovel from a project at Ursina to 
another at Scullton.  The shovel had been placed on a 12-ton trailer.  A highway 
department truck was pulling the load and a second truck was following.
  While descending a slight grade on Route 53 near Kingwood, the trailer got out 
of control, and the steam shovel turned over.  The rear truck, in the bed of 
which Walker was standing as a flagman to warn following traffic, was also upset 
and Walker was thrown on the concrete pavement, landing on his head and 
sustaining a double fracture of the skull.
  The injured man was taken to the Somerset Community Hospital where he died at 
12:15 p.m. the following day, without having recovered consciousness.
  The doubly-bereaved wife, Margaret (Hay) Walker, and one son, Jay, are all 
that are left of this family.  Much sympathy is felt for the widow and surviving 
son, whose grief can well be imagined.
  Mr. Walker's tragic death, and that of his son, Francis, is also mourned by 
three brothers and one sister - Oscar, Walter and Dalton Walker, and Mrs. Dorsey 
Hoffman, all of Brothersvalley Township.
  Edison E. Walker was born in Brothersvalley Township November 21, 1895, a son 
of Freeman and Minerva (Hay) Walker.  His parents died in 1936.
  Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon at 2:30 in Berlin Trinity 
Reformed Church, in charge of the Rev. F. D. Witmer, pastor of Hay's church, 
assisted by Rev. Dr. D. S. Stephan, pastor of the Berlin church.  Interment in 
Berlin I.O.O.F. Cemetery under the direction of Johnson and Son, Berlin 
morticians.

Meyersdale Republican, June 26, 1941