Lion Fred Walker, Sr. would joke that he " didn't join the Lions Club until 1936." A long-standing Lions Club Member, and one of Santa Ana's City Fathers. Fred was the owner and operator of Walker's Market, an early supermarket with a full butcher's departmentand a deli, as well as the touch and feel of a small corner market, always with fresh coffee brewing for the customers.
Later he moved Walker's Market to the corner of 17th Street and Tustin Avenue. Fred sold the market and retired in 1982. He was an avit golfer, and used to declare that "a man is doing pretty well in life if his golf score is lower than his age."
The Santa Ana Host Lions Club is a non-profit organization that was founded on January 24th, 1922. It was the first service club in the County of Orange.
One of the main purposes of this club is to assist with free of cost eye vision care and glasses to kids attending the Santa Ana Unified School District.
The Santa Ana Host Lions Club is affiliated with the Lions Clubs International, the biggest service association in the world with more than 1.4 million members and 44,000 clubs in 198 countries around the world.
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ABOUT FRED WALKER, SR.
2011
Always willing to serve, he was a true Lion until his passing at the age of 96, embodying the Lions Motto:
We Serve
Walker grew up in Canada, so poor that he and his sister took turns going to school and going to work in the fields. The family moved to California when he was a teenager, and he graduated from Fullerton High School.
He scratched out a living during the Great Depression selling produce from roadside stands. Later, after he took over a wholesale market, he would shake himself out of bed at 4 a.m. to pick up fruits and vegetables from local farmers.
Walker would walk the store, dressed in knit shirts from golf tournaments he had played in, greeting customers by name. If a child started crying, he would walk over, hands clasped behind his back, then lean down and announce: "No crying is allowed in this market."
He died of heart failure last week at the Lemon Heights home where he had lived since the 1940s. Services will be at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at Fairhaven Memorial Park, 1702 Fairhaven Ave., in Santa Ana.
Walker is survived by his son, Fred Walker Jr.; his daughter, Elaine Walker Moore; eight grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
"He was a character," said granddaughter Laura Moore, 40, of Los Altos. "Everybody adored him. Everybody was charmed by him…. He was really a very chipper man, very optimistic, very positive, very hopeful."
"By DOUG IRVING
The Orange County Register"
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