Dad’s High School Graduation
My dad graduated from Walker, Missouri High School in 1928. He went to work immediately following the wheat harvest from Oklahoma northward through Kansas and on into Nebraska. By the next year, his parents moved to Denver when his father retired. His father had been a rural mail carrier in Walker for over 20 years. The doctor thought the higher altitude might help his health. It didn’t. He died in May of 1929, just five months before the stock market…