Dr. Newton Field WALKER

1905 - 1976  (71 years)

• Name	Newton Field WALKER
  Prefix	Dr.
  Nickname	Newt
  Birth	18 Mar 1905	Fleetwood, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	12 Aug 1976	El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA
  	at 4:00 a.m. at Providence Memorial Hospital
  Burial	13 Aug 1976	Fort Bliss National Cemetery, El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA
  	Section I Site 3888
  Person ID	I13468	von Rosenberg Family Tree
  Last Modified	23 Jun 2022

  
  

  Father	Obediah Cann WALKER,   b. 7 Oct 1870, Millerville, Clay, Alabama, USA d. 12 Apr 1951, Gotebo, Kiowa, Oklahoma, USA (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Nannie FIELD,   b. Oct 1869, Missouri, USA d. 1934 (Age ~ 64 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1897
  Family ID	F9402	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Helen Eleanor HELLMUTH,   b. 10 Oct 1911, Coupland, Williamson, Texas, USA d. 23 Jan 2008 (Age 96 years)
  Marriage	8 Apr 1934	Waco, McLennan, Texas, USA
  Children	+ 1. Living
  Family ID	F9401	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2014

  
  

• Notes

  Newt graduated from Ryan High School in Oklahoma where he played football, before attending Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State University), where he was a member of the Sigma Nu Fraternity. He also lettered in basketball. He attended the University of Missouri where he played football and graduated from Baylor University School of Medicine in 1935, then located in Dallas, Texas. He interned at California Lutheran Hospital in Los Angeles. he did his residency at Ventura County Hospital in Ventura, California and did post graduate work at Columbia Post Graduate School in New York, the New York Eye Infirmary, and Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. He and Helen moved to El Paso in 1937 where Newt began practicing as an Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat physician. During World War II, he served as a Major in the U. S. Army Medical Corps, stationed on Christmas Island and the Hawaiian Islands. While there he received the Bronze Star. In El Paso, he served as president of the El Paso County Medical Society and as president of the Baylor Alumni Association. He was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations. “Dr. Walker was born in Fleetwood, Okla., and was graduated from the Baylor College of Medicine. He received intern training at the California Lutheran Hospital in Los Angeles, and served his residency at the Ventura County Hospital, Los Angeles. He has done postgraduate work at New York Eye and Ear Hospital of the New York Postgraduate Medical School and the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. “He had been a resident of El Paso since 1937, and served in the Medical Corps for five and one half years, four years of which he served overseas, during World War II. He received the Bronze Star for service with the North Sector General Hospital in Hawaii. “He was a fellow in the International College of Surgeons, a life member of the New York Academy of Science and a member of the Pan American Assn. of Ophthalmology, the American and Southern Medical Associations and El Paso County Medical Society. “Dr. Walker was president of the El Paso County Medical Society in 1955-1956.”