{"id":590,"date":"2014-03-15T08:21:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T13:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgantn\/?p=590"},"modified":"2017-06-20T22:30:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T03:30:16","slug":"walker-alva-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/walker-alva-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Walker, Alva M."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alva M. Walker \u00a0&#8211; \u00a0<\/strong><strong>b 1-26-1921 in Oakdale, Tn.\u00a0 d 4-6-2000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morganco\/photoalbum\/AlvaWalker.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Son of Milton Joseph Walker and Evalena Johnson Walker of Oakdale.\u00a0He served in the 159th Infantry Regiment in the Army during World War 11 in<span style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 1.5em\">\u00a0<\/span>the Aleutian Islands(Asiatic Pacific Theater). My dad was a very patriotic american.\u00a0He flew his flag proudly every day not only for special occasions.\u00a0Clarence Edward Barnes and James Lloyd Walker\u00a0 were his nephews.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Grandson of\u00a0Edmond Harvey and Nancy Voiles Walker<br \/>\nand\u00a0John B. &amp; Lillian Forrester Johnson.<br \/>\nHe\u00a0 married Charlene Rose Ooten July 5, 1947.<br \/>\nHe was a very special husband, father, grandfather and friend to all.<\/p>\n<hr size=\"3\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<blockquote><p><span><b>WALKER, ALVA MILTON<\/b>, 79, Sunbright, died 4\/6\/2000. Preceded by son, Ernest Milton Walker, parents, Joseph and Lena Johnson Walker; brother, Jimmy Walker and sisters, Mary Walker and Nell Monday. Survivors, wife, Charlene Walker; sons and wives: Wayne and Maria Walker, Joe and Barbara Walker, Darrell and Sheila Walker and Ed and Mary Walker; daughters and husband, Kathy and Charles Webb, James and Doris Dennison and Shirley and Ray Wactor; 15 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren; brother, Ernest Walker; sisters, Rose Barnes, Helen Dunaway, Wanda Underwood, Bonnie Cline and Jane McFarland. Burial in Union Grove Cemetery. [Morgan County News]<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of his daughter, Kathy Webb<a href=\"javascript:secureDecryptAndNavigate('76lWmiSW+TAzqvoaPsHyu9vJdLI1PFTgfEsfAgI1iCqux8cu2zewjhfumQ7hVCcSlK50uAaEtRDDP10XmvMmsX5epaabSi3kpOQ=', '24d0bc206e6bc705bf9bba536adceceaa345ee79cb37928608812956b7ccea73')\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Alva M. Walker \u00a0&#8211; \u00a0b 1-26-1921 in Oakdale, Tn.\u00a0 d 4-6-2000 Son of Milton Joseph Walker and Evalena Johnson Walker of Oakdale.\u00a0He served in the 159th Infantry Regiment in the Army during World War 11 in\u00a0the Aleutian Islands(Asiatic Pacific Theater). My dad was a very patriotic american.\u00a0He flew his flag proudly every day not&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/walker-alva-m\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Walker, Alva M.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[207,256,273,271,274,275,272,270,276,24],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans","tag-barnes","tag-cline","tag-dennison-dunaway-underwood","tag-forrester","tag-mcfarland","tag-monday","tag-ooten","tag-voiles","tag-wactor","tag-webb","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3919,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/3919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}