Ethel Toney Walker
August 12, 1884-January 5, 1930
Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Monday, January 6, 1930, page 1 col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library
Mrs. Ethel Walker Dies at Rock Island Home After Long Illness
Mrs. Ethel Toney Walker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Toney, 1610 Oak street, and wife of Clyde Walker of Frock Island, Ill., who is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Walker of Niles, died on Sunday, Jan. 5, at their home in Rock Island after a year of illness.
The body will be brought to Niles tomorrow evening and will be taken to the Troost and Augustine chapel where friends may call between the hours of 9 and 12 o'clock on Wednesday. On Wednesday afternoon the body will be taken to Silver Brook cemetery for burial.
Mrs. Walker was born in Berrien township, August 12, 1884, and live near Niles for 20 years. She attended the Niles high school and graduated with honors. On August 4, 1904, she was married to Clyde Walker and they went at once to South Dakota, where they lived for a year and where both taught in the public schools. They then moved back to Michigan that Mr. Walker might complete his law course at University of Michigan. After he was graduated from University of Michigan they went to Rock Island where they have since resided.
Besides her husband and her parents, Mrs. Walker is survived by two sons, Victor and Cameron, of Rock Island and by one sister and a brother, Glen Toney, of Lansing, and Mrs. Mabel Reeves, of Lawrence, Mich. Mr. Walker's parents reside at River Bluff. They are in Rock Island having gone there in the fall the spend the winter on account of Mrs. Clyde Walker's ill health.
Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Wednesday, January 8, 1930, page 4 col. 2, microfilm Niles District Library
News in Brief: COMMITTAL SERVICE HERE
The body of Mrs. Clyde Walker was brought to Niles last evening from Rock Island, Ill., and was at Troost and Augustine chapel until this afternoon when it was placed in the mansoleum[sic] in Silver Brook cemetery. Mr. Walker and two sons came to Niles with the body. They will leave for their homes this evening, one of the sons being a resident of Chicago. Mrs. Mabel Reeves, of Lawrence, and Glen Toney, of Lansing, sister and brother of the deceased, and other relatives from out of the city were in Niles for the committal services. Mr. Walker's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Walker, of Niles, remained at his home in Rock Island.