Odies O. Walker

Abt 1914 - 1971  (~ 57 years)

• Name	Odies O. Walker  [1]
  Born	Abt 1914	Paris, Lamar County, Texas, USA   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1935	Choctaw County, Oklahoma, USA   [4]
  	Residing on a farm in rural Choctaw County.
  Residence	10 Jan 1936	Harrisburg, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA   [4, 5]
  	Location of daughter Virginia's birth on this date.
  Census	18 Apr 1940	106 N. Rutledge, Hobbs, Lea County, New Mexico, USA   [4]
  	1. Walker, Otis [Odies] O., head, owns, value $130, male, white, 25, married, completed grade 10, Texas, 1935 residing in rural Choctaw Co OK (farm), employed for pay, worked 32 hours, rock mason, building construction, worked 34 weeks, income $800 2 _____, Amanda, wife, female, white, 22, married, completed grade 8, Oklahoma, 1935 in Choctaw Co OK, not employed for pay 3. _____, Virginia, daughter, female, white, 4, Pennsylvania 4. _____, Allan, son, male, white, 2, Texas 5. _____, William, son, male, white, 1, New Mexico
  Occupation	1953	Amarillo, Potter County, Texas, USA   [6]
  	Cement worker.
  Residence	1953	3710 E. 12th Ave., Amarillo, Potter County, Texas, USA   [6]
  Occupation	1960	Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, USA   [7]
  	Construction worker
  Residence	1960	3814 D. Ave., Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, USA   [7]
  Died	3 May 1971	Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, USA   [3, 8]
  	Probably in Corpus Christi, where his obit appeared in 1871 in the Corpus Christie Caller, 5 May 1971, p. 6D.
  Obituary	5 May 1971	Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, USA   [3]
  	Obituary, Odies O. Walker, Corpus Christi Times Graveside services for Odies O. Walker, 57, of 4002 Surside, were to be held at 11 a.m. today in the Nueces County Cemetery with the Rev. R. A. Butler officiating. Clifford Jackson Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Walker died at 11:15 a.m. Monday in a local hospital after a long illness. A native of Paris, Texas, he had lived in Nueces County 19 years. He was a carpenter. Survivors include his wife, Peggy; two daughters, Mrs. Virginia Bench of Pasadena, Texas, and Mrs. Vivian Ann Colsby of Houston; one son, Odies A. Walker of Houston; two brothers, F. A. Walker of Antlers, Okla., and Herbert Hendricks of Universal City; and five grandchildren.
  Buried	Nueces County Cemetery, Nueces County, Texas, USA   [3]
  Person ID	I5321	Full | ProgenitorWalker
  Last Modified	25 Mar 2013

  
  

  Father	Jerry Simpson Walker,   b. 25 Dec 1893, Woodlawn, Harrison County, Texas, USA ,   d. 1 Apr 1933, Camp Switch, Gregg County, Texas, USA  (Age 39 years)
  Mother	Artie M. Hensley,   b. Abt 1896, Arkansas, USA
  Married	Abt 1903  [2]
  	Possibly married in Texas, since their first child was born in Texas.
  Family ID	F1859	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Amanda L. Jones
  Married	Before 1937  [6, 9]
  	In 1960 Odies O. Walker's wife was listed in the Corpus Christi directory as "Peggy." Same woman or another wife?
  Children	1. Virginia Mae "Ginger" Walker,   b. 10 Jan 1936, Harrisburg, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA ,   d. 23 Mar 2007, Galena Park, Harris County, Texas, USA  (Age 71 years) + 2. Odies Allen Walker,   b. 20 Dec 1937, Wickett, Ward County, Texas, USA ,   d. 7 Nov 2003, Slocum, Anderson County, Texas, USA  (Age 65 years)   3. William Walker,   b. 1939, New Mexico, USA ,   d. Before 5 May 1971  (Age 32 years)   4. Vivian Ann Walker,   b. After 1940,   d. After 5 May 1971  (Age ~ 30 years)
  Last Modified	25 Mar 2013
  Family ID	F1860	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Peggy
  Last Modified	25 Mar 2013
  Family ID	F1863	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S3245] 1930 U.S. census, Seminole County, Oklahoma, population schedule, Econtuchka township, enumeration district (ED) 67-5, sheet 7A, p. 63 (stamped, recto), dwelling 140, family 140, Jerry S. Walker household; digital images, _Ancestry.com_ (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 19 March 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 1930. [S3244] 1920 U.S. census, Choctaw County, Oklahoma, population schedule, Everidge township, Precinct 3, enumeration district (ED) 62, sheet 14B (penned), p. 32 (stamped, verso), dwelling 252, family 262, Jerry Walker household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 19 March 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 1456. [S3256] "Deaths and Funerals: Odies O. Walker," Corpus Christi (Texas) Times, 5 May 1971, p. 14D, col. 2; digital image, Newspaperarchive.com (newspaperarchive.com : accessed 24 March 2013). [S3257] 1940 U.S. census, Lea County, New Mexico, population schedule, Hobbs (106 N. Rutlege), Precinct 10, enumeration district (ED) 13-11e, sheet 10B, p. 136 (stamped, verso), household no. 219, Otis [Odies] O. Walker household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 25 March 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication T627, roll 2446. [S3258] "San Jacinto Memorial Park, Houston, Harris County, Texas," database and digital photo,FindAGrave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 25 March 2013), entry for Virginia Mae "Ginger" Walker Bench (2007), memorial no. 28286614, posted by Norman Bench (pipehand55@aol.com), 14 July 2008. [S3251] Hudspeth's Amarillo (Potter County, Tex.) City Directory 1953 (El Paso, Tex.: Hudspeth Directory Co. Inc., 1953), 686, Odies O. Walker; "U. S. City Directories (Beta)," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 23 March 2013). [S3253] Polk's Corpus Christi (Nueces County, Texas) City Directory 1960 (Dallas, Tex.: R. L. Polk & Co., Publishers, 1961), 592, Odies O. Walker; "U. S. City Directories (Beta)," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 23 March 2013). . [S3252] "Corpus Christi Public Library Obituary Index," database, Corpus Christi Public Libraries (http://www.cclibraries.com/ : accessed 23 March 2013), entry for Odies O. Walker, Corpus Christi Caller, 5 May 1971, p. 6D. [S3254] "Odies Walker," transcription of obituary, Palestine (Texas) Herald-Press (www.PalestineHerald.com : accessed 24 March 2013), 8 November 2003, Odies Allen Walker; accessed from "United States Obituary Collection," database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 24 March 2013), Odies Allen Walker, with link to transcribed obituary offsite. .