WALKER, Albert Galiton

Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ, Friday, June 8, 1951 STATE MOURNS PASSING OF A. G. WALKER WHICH OCCURRED HERE SUNDAY. FINAL RITES WEDNESDAY It was a loss to the entire state of Arizona when Albert Galiton Walker died in Community Hospital here at 11:53 p. m. Sunday. Mr Walker, who had lived in this state since 1907, was warden of the Arizona State Prison for nine years and supperintendent of the Arizona Highway Patrol from 1946 until his resignation last summer. It is generally recognized that the high standards of the prison and the patrol today are due, in large part, to his administration. RITES IN GLENDALE Friends viewed the body in the Wickenburg Chapel Wednesday morning after which it was removed to Glendale where services were conducted at 2 p. m. at the Leonard Chapel with burial in Glendale Memorial Cemetery. Mr Walker was born July 10, 1888, near Copperas Cove, Tex. When he came to Arizona in 1907 he was a peace officer in Graham County, then operated a ranch nine miles east of Wickenburg on the Constellation Road from 1920 until he became the state prison warden in 1933. His son, Ira, now operates the ranch. Mr Walker moved back to Wickenburg last October when his health failed and had been living in the Barnette Addition. SURVIVORS Surviving are the widow, Frances Walker of Wickenburg; one son, Ira Walker, Wickenburg; and five daughter, Mrs Roy George of Wickenburg, Mrs Clifford Gray of Hillside, Mrs J. Vensel of Prescott, Mrs Carl Lawson of Claypool and Mrs Albert Nord of Salome. There are 16 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. One sister, Mrs Vera Epperson of Rock Springs, Texas, also survives. A son, Jerry, was killed in the Pacific during World War II.