OBIT: Mabel (Brant) WALKER, 1932, native of Somerset County, PA

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MABEL BRANT WALKER

  Mrs. Mabel (Brant) Walker, aged 57, wife of Jacob J. Walker, Somerset County 
court stenographer, died Tuesday evening at 6:45 o'clock at the home of her son-
in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. J. Palmer Cleaver, of 540 Cypress Avenue, 
Johnstown, following a long illness of a complication of diseases.  Mrs. Walker 
was admitted to the Memorial Hospital several weeks ago and later was taken to 
the home of her daughter.
  Mrs. Walker was born in Shanksville.  She was a lifelong member of the United 
Brethren Church and was active in church work.  Her father, John Brant, passed 
away several years ago.
  Surviving are her mother, Mrs. Emma Brant-Shanks, of Johnstown, a former 
resident of Somerset; two brothers, George M. Brant, of South Edgewood Avenue, 
Somerset; Roe Brant, of York, and four children: Roy Walker, of Somerset; Mrs. 
William H. Price, of Scranton; Mrs. Palmer Cleaver, at whose home she died, and 
J. J. Walker, Jr., of Bowling Green, Ohio.
  The body was removed to the Walker home in Somerset, where funeral services 
were conducted this (Thursday) afternoon, Rev. Dr. Earl C. Weaver, pastor of the 
Somerset United Brethren Church, of which Mrs. Walker was a member, officiated.  
Interment followed in the Walker Cemetery at Shanksville, in charge of Walter S. 
Hoffman, Somerset funeral director.
  Owing to the death of his wife, Mr. Walker missed a session of court for the 
first time in 24 years.  Since his appointment as court reporter 24 years ago, 
he was never absent when court was in session before Wednesday of this week.  
Owing to his bereavement Mrs. H. G. Gress was reporting in short hand the court 
proceedings yesterday and today, Wednesday and Thursday.
  In 1911, one of Mr. Walker's sons was accidently shot and killed by a 
companion.  The accident happened when court was not in session.  In 1915, he 
lost another son, but Mr. Walker did not miss work.

Meyersdale Republican, December 15, 1932