[Lwvcnmtopics] FW: Obituary for Lifetime League member Dorothy "Tooker" Walton in today's ABQ Journal

[Susan Walton]

Hold the Phone! This is Susan, Tooker's daughter and THIS is the FIRST I
have heard of a memorial at 1 pm on Thursday, 10/13, tomorrow.  I have a
call into Dean Kristie at the Cathedral. This is just weird...

Actually what I knew was that the Cathedral Church of St John's had to
reschedule (they changed the date last week)  their usual monthly requiem
mass to NEXT Thursday, Oct. 20, at noon, and it will still be streamed on
Facebook, or available for viewing after the service on the FB page.

On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 8:29 AM Michelle Meaders <shellout at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> “Tooker will be remembered in the October 13, 2022 Requiem Service
> (streaming through St. John's Facebook page) at St. John's Episcopal
> Cathedral, 318 Silver Ave. SW, Albuquerque”
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> I checked with the Cathedral of St. John last week about the time of the
> service on Thursday (tomorrow).  They said it would be at 1 pm.
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> That service is usually at noon, but they will have a big funeral in the
> morning, and it would be delayed.
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> They said the notice would be on their Website and Facebook page, but I
> don’t see it there.
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> Facebook page: (20+) Cathedral of St John Albuquerque | Facebook
> <https://www.facebook.com/stjohnsabq>
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> Michelle Meaders
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> *From: *Michelle Meaders <shellout at earthlink.net>
> *Sent: *Sunday, October 2, 2022 1:09 PM
> *To: *Karen Wentworth <karen.wentworth3 at gmail.com>; Anne Pierce-Jones
> <apiercejones at outlook.com>
> *Subject: *Obituary for Lifetime League member Dorothy "Tooker" Walton
> intoday's ABQ Journal
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> DOROTHY WALTON OBITUARY
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> *Dorothy Virginia "Tooker" Cathey Walton*Dorothy Virginia "Tooker" Cathey
> Walton, 99, was born March 1, 1923 in Jackson, MS and died Sunday,
> September 11, 2022 peacefully at home in Los Ranchos, New Mexico. She
> graduated from AG Parrish High School in Selma, AL and attended Montevallo,
> a women's Liberal Arts college in AL. She was recruited from Montevallo in
> 1943 to join the war effort by studying aeronautical engineering at VPI
> (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, VA, and then working on the drafting tables
> at Glenn L. Martin (later Lockheed Martin) in Baltimore where she used her
> slide rule on the blueprints of a new jet, to calculate balance points. She
> became the manager of foreign sales at Engineering Resource Corp, where her
> last sale was five ERCoupe planes to Saudi Arabia.
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> While visiting her sister who was married to an Army officer stationed in
> Germany in the 1950's, Tooker met and married Capt. James K. Walton. After
> retiring from the US Army, they made their home in Albuquerque, NM. Tooker
> was preceded in death by her husband of 53 years; her parents, Thomas
> Rupert Cathey and Sara McAuley Cathey of Selma, AL; her two brothers, Lee
> Riggs Cathey of Selma, AL and Thomas R. "Sonny" Cathey of Cary, NC; and her
> brother-in-law, Charles Walton of Mill Valley, CA. She leaves behind three
> children, Thomas Kenneth Walton (Jacqueline) of San Antonio, TX, Susan
> Walton (Ed Greenwich), and James K. "Jim" Walton, both of Los Ranchos, NM.
> Also surviving are two sisters, Juanita Cathey Sinclair of Raleigh, NC and
> Anne Cathey Smith (Wayne) of Cary, NC; and one sister-in-law, Rebecca
> Cathey of Cary, NC; as well as three grandchildren, Amanda Todd (James),
> Madeleine Hamilton (Trent), and James "Zeke" Walton; and one
> great-grandchild, Walker Hamilton. Other family and many friends, including
> Dupuy and Ellen Bateman and her godson Dupuy Bateman IV survive her.
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> Tooker was a competent seamstress, enjoyed playing Bridge, attending the
> Tuesday Literary Club, hosting dinner parties, growing an annual organic
> garden and selling blackberries to La Montanita Coop for some years. She
> was inducted into the Albuquerque Senior Hall of Fame in 2006. She was
> instrumental in running the St. John's Thrift Shop on Central Avenue for
> many years. The shop is still 100% volunteers and offering great buys
> today. She was a member of the Cathedral of St. John.
>
> Tooker will be remembered in the October 13, 2022 Requiem Service
> (streaming through St. John's Facebook page) at St. John's Episcopal
> Cathedral, 318 Silver Ave. SW, Albuquerque. In lieu of flowers, you might
> consider a gift to charity. Her favorite charities were those close to her
> friends' hearts. She always contributed to the League of Women Voters,
> Planned Parenthood, Sandia Prep School and The Cathedral Church of St. John.
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> A burial of her cremains will be held in the Anna City Cemetery in Anna,
> IL, next to her husband who died in 2007. It will be scheduled in the
> spring or summer of 2023.
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> Please visit our online guestbook for Tooker at
> www.FrenchFunerals.com <http://www.frenchfunerals.com/>
>
> Published by Albuquerque Journal on Oct. 2, 2022.
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> Dorothy Walton Obituary (2022) - Albuquerque, NM - Albuquerque Journal
> (legacy.com)
> <https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/abqjournal/name/dorothy-walton-obituary?id=36682144>
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> Maybe someone who knew her wants to add something and sent it to Topics.
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> I don’t think there was anything published for Julia Seligman, who died
> last year.
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> Michelle Meaders
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