Alfred Murry Walker and Marguerite Harrison Walker
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A.M. Walker born and reared in Wichita County, Texas. His father was a trail boss on early day cattle drives to Abilene, Kansas. He was a veteran of World War I. Attended Tyler Business College in Tyler, Texas. There he met and married Margarite Harrison in Memphis, Texas in 1920. He was in compress and warehouse work since high school days. Worked in compresses in Wichita Falls, Memphis, Childress, and Colorado City, before moving to Spur as manager of Spur Compress in the summer of of 1928. He remained manager of the Spur Compress and as general manager of Guitar Ranch until his retirement in 1962.

Margarite Walker was born and reared in Hunt County, Texas. She attended Burleson College in Greenville, Texas and Baylor University in Waco. She taught school in Hunt County for two or three years, then went to West Texas, Memphis, Texas, to teach. There she married A.M. Walker, she continued to teach until her first child was born in 1920 at Childress, Texas, and she did not start teaching again until 1943; when her first child went away to college. She taught in the Spur Schools from that time until her retirement in 1961. She continued to take college work during her later teaching days, and she received her B.A. degree from East Texas State College in 1949. She died in 1963, after a long illness.

Source: History of Dickens County; Ranches and Rolling Plains, Fred Arrington, ©1971

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Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 in the First Baptist Church for Mrs. Marguerite Harrison Walker, 69. Church pastor, Rev. John Jenkins officiated.

Mrs. Walker died Sunday night about 7:25 p.m. in Sur Memorial Hospital. She had been ill for some time.

Born in Greenville, TX in 1894, she married A.M. Walker in Greenville in 1920. The couple moved to Dickens County in 1928. She taught in the Spur schools from 1943 to 1958. She was a member of the First Baptist Church.

She is survived by her husband, A.M. Walker, Spur; two sons, Alfred Walker, Spur and George Walker, Austin; three sisters, Mrs. A.W. Boyd, Mrs. Marion McEreath and Miss Mary Cloyd Harrison all of Greenville; one brother, Duke Harrison, Greenville. Five grandchildren also survive.

Burial was in Spur Cemetery.

The Texas Spur, May 7, 1964
from the records of Lillian Grace Nay

Graveside services for A.M. Walker, 90, are scheduled for 1 p.m. Friday morning in Spur Memorial Cemetery. Rev. Darwin Cox, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Spur, will officiate. Weed-Corley Funeral Home, Austin, will be in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Walker died in a Georgetown Hospital on Tuesday, March 26.

He had lived in Spur most of his life, moving to Austin about 15 years ago following his retirement. He was a compress manager and ranch foreman. A member of the Baptist Church, he was a veteran of World War I. His wife, the former Marguerite Harrison, died in 1964.

Survivors include two sons, Alfred Walker, former Dickens County Attorney, Austin and George Harrison Walker, also of Austin; five grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

Visitation will begin Friday morning at Campbell Funeral Home.

The Texas Spur, March 1985
From the scrapbook of Thelma Kimmel Scott

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