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Mr. and Mrs. L. A. WALKER received a letter from the war department recently which confirmed the death of one of their sons who had been in the service and who had been reported missing in action last summer.

The letter which they received is as follows:

Army Air Forces
Hdq. South Pacific Wing
Pacific Division
Air Transport Command
1550th AAF Base Unit
15 December 1945

Mr. and Mrs. L. A. WALKER,
R. F. D. No. 1, La Grande

Dear Mr. and Mrs. WALKER,

It is with deepest regret that I write this letter confirming that your son, Sergeant Clyde A. WALKER, 39325795, has been officially declared deceased.

You have been advised previously that all possible efforts of the army and navy rescue units were utilized in the search for your son after having been forced down at sea, approximately 110 miles south of Los Negros, in the Admiralty Islands, on June 21, 1945. I wish to say again every possible effort was made to rescue the officers and enlisted men who were aboard the Air Sea Rescue Aircraft on which your son was serving as serial engineer.

Your son's last flight was made to secure invaluable data and safety information with which to indoctrinate other Air Rescue units. In this operation, Sergeant WALKER met his responsibilities with great courage and attention to duty. The memory of his performance of this duty, necessary in the execution of the mission of his organization, will be remembered by myself and by the officers and men of this command, as a fine example of courage and devotion to duty, which is an inspiration to all who knew him and is in the finest tradition of the military service.

Archie J. Old (Signed)
Brigadier Gen., U. S. A.
Commanding

Of Lung Fever at River Junction, Johnson County, Iowa, January the 9th., 1878, HARRIET A. WALKER, aged 41 years, 11 months and 19 days:
While health and happiness seemed once more to smile upon the inmates and those in connection with the SENTINEL office, a letter was slowly but surely wending it's way from our native banks of the Iowa to bear us the sad news of the departure of our eldest sister from the mortal abode of her beloved mother, husband, children, brothers and sisters, to the land of immortality beyond the grave. Many of our readers in La Grande will remember Mrs. Hattie Walker and Mrs. Elizabeth Welsh, who paid a visit to that town two years ago and the many pleasant attachments formed during their sojourn there; but since that time the silent voice and hidden hand which doeth all this well, has beckoned them from this abode to dwell in a higher life, in a land of eternal summer, where beautiful flowers bloom and the air is made vocal with the glad songs of the pure and noble who have passed from earth life.

Mrs. Harriet A. Walker, deceased, was born January the 21st, 1836 in the state of Indiana having removed in early girlhood, with father and mother, to the State of Iowa where she was married in her ninteenth year to Henry Walker who shared the trials of California frontiersmen in the days of forty-nine and has resided at her home above mentioned up to the time that life in this world was no longer granted as her privilege but taken hurriedly away in the short space of four days by that fatal agency, lung fever. She was called away very suddenly, but few are so well prepared to go:
Over the bridge, across the river,
The footsteps come and go;
Their ceaseless tread goes on forever,
While the waters ebb and flow.

Across the beautiful Bridge of Light
We all most sometime go,
To join that band of spirits bright,
While the waters ebb and flow.

Mrs. Valeria Bell Walker, sister of C. C. Bull and Mrs. Overpeck, of La Grande, died last week in Salem after an extended illness. The remains were brought to La Grande and private funeral services were held at the Snodgrass Funeral Home conducted by Clarence A. Kopp, with interment in the Masonic cemetery.

Besides the relatives here, Mrs. Walker leaves her widower, Albert C. Walker and a sister, Mrs. Florence Umbarger, of San Diego.