Stephen Archie Walker ’33

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Stephen died Nov. 11, 2001, on Anna Maria Island, Fla., where he and his wife, Virginia Manning Archer, had lived for 45 years, as long as they had been married. He was 90.

Stephen graduated from the Blake School in Minneapolis. After Princeton he attended medical school and practiced briefly in San Francisco. After his marriage he moved to Anna Maria, where he lived until his death. He was a quiet man who read voraciously, keeping up with national events and activities. His wife describes him as a gentleman's gentleman. They lived "very happily together." They had no children.

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