A Neighbor Remembers Walker Reunions

· Marjorie Kimble ·

Today I went to a 90th birthday open house for an old neighbor (actually I thought it was tomorrow and when the gal came to get me I was a long ways from being ready). As we were leaving the party another old neighbor arrived. He and his wife were classmates of Bill Walker. His wife said her husband had been wanting to see me, that I had stirred up some memories with one of my stories in the local newspaper. Then he took over. "I remember those ball games [during Walker family reunions in Morning Sun], although I was not a family member, I always felt welcome. When I would know there was a Walker gathering I'd say to my parents, 'can I go over there?' and here I'd come to join in the fun." Then he said, "I want to ask you something...when they would all come in like that, did they bring food or did your mother cook it all?" I replied in the early days it might have been either way. Mother [Reil Walker] could make a meal out of almost anything and it would be tasty. I added that I never knew anyone to be turned away and he agreed emphatically, saying he never felt like an intruder, but just one of the gang. I really thought that was a nice tribute to the family which we are a part of.

This was when we still lived in the house that sat way back away from everyone, which we called "the Walker homestead." The neighbor who came by during the reunions and his family lived across the field from us and we kids walked across the same field each day to meet the bus to take us to school. There was a shack that sat by the road and that is where we would wait to be picked up. They always said it was a quarter mile one way from the house to the road and we walked it both ways, so I guess it was a half mile.

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