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Dorothy Louise (Gottchalk) Walker

Posted 2009-06-15 by Judy Wight Branson
Dorothy Louise (Gottchalk) Morgan - Walker

Born in Elder, Colorado on Mach. 24, 1913.
Departed on June 4, 2003 and resided in Cottonwood, Arizona.

Dorothy L. Walker, 90, of Cottonwood died June 4, 2003. She was born
Dorothy Louise on March 24, 1913 in Elder, Colorado, the second
daughter of John Gottchalk and Anna Johnson.

On March 24, 1936, she married Louis Albert Morgan in Los Angeles,
California and to their union there were no children. He died on
September 7, 1944 and is buried in Forest Lawn, Los Angeles,
California. She later married Keith Vincent Walker on June 15, 1952
in Tonopah, Nevada and to their union there were no children. He
preceded her in death, September 29, 1977 and is buried in Eternal
Valley, Newhall, California.

Mrs. Walker is survived by her sister, Alvira Lucinda Dunkin and
brother, Donald A. Johnson, Cottonwood, Ariz., sister, Anna Lorene
Earl, Farmersville, Calif. She also leaves five nephews to mourn her
death, Duane Kent Dunkin, Santa Fe, N.M., Gary Don Johnson, Santa
Rosa, Calif. and Dennis Lane Johnson, Arlington, Wash., Eugene Paul
Morgan, Waltham, Mass. and Lee Allen Morgan, Farmersville, Calif,;
five favored grand nieces and nephews, Jody Johnson Caccitore, Aaron
and Julia Dunkin and Eric and Melissa Morgan. Other members of her
family are cousins, Irene Roach and Evelyn Miller in Eugene, Or. and
Frances Gottbehuet in Fowler, Colo.

Mrs. Walker lived most of her adult life in the greater Los Angeles
area, and was an active person, a business woman, traveler and made
many friends who always thought highly of her. She moved from Fiendly
Valley, Calif. to Cottonwood, Ariz. in 1992, where she resided in
Sawmill Gardens.

A funeral service will be held on Monday, June 9 in the Westcott
Funeral Home at 2 p.m.

Burial will be later in the week in the Eternal Valley Memorial Park
in Newhall, California.

Westcott Funeral Home, Cottonwood and Camp Verde, Arizona.




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