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Page 8 The CATALINA ISLANDER Friday, August 11, 2000
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by DOUG OUDIN
One person in a thousand has
that charismatic quality that
attracts other people like a mag-
net and endears them to that per-
son for eternity.
Such was the case with "The
Admiral," Mr. James Walker,
who passed away on Tuesday
August 1, while riding his
custom Harley Davidson motor-
cycle in the Mojave Desert.
His passing was attributed to
heat exhaustion: His death sent
shock waves throughout the Two
Harbors community, the boating
world and into the lives and
memories of everyone whose life
he touched during his 70 distin-
guished years. James "Jimmy"
Walker leaves behind a legacy of
enormous proportions.
His personal resume reds like
a who's who of far reaching"m g-
,nitude.
His most public background
was that of mayor of Manhattan
Beach, where he endeared him-
self as the true iconoclast of an
otherwise staid and conservative
political community.
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He also served as; a council-
man, sheriff, lifeguard, private
investigator, minister (marrying
dozens of Islanders), ship captain
(safely transporting 32,618 boy
scouts at Camp Emerald Bay
over a 12-year period), real estate
agent, notary (when he discov-
ered Two Harbors needed one),
bartender, founder of the Two
Harbors Epicurean Society,
entertainer, oil magnate, property
manager, shoreboat operator, har-
bor patrolman, campground
ranger, coastal ranger, helicopter
pilot, military hero (where he
was introduced to agent orange
in the Korean War), and more.
But his greatest impact on life
was that which he made on the
people he knew.
Jim Walker was a true friend,
a kind and gentle man who had a
unique and unequaled ability to
make other people feel good,
about themselves and about life
in general.
He lived life to the fullest,
embracing each day as a gift of
life, and reaching out to each
person he met with a sincere
interest in making them a friend.
Each person he met felt they
had just made one of those con-
tacts in life that would be there
for them forever, and he was.
His friendship was genuine
and his lust for life unending
On Tuesday, August 8, family,
friends and loved ones gathered
at Two Harbors to celebrdte the
life of Jim Walker.
Beginning with a service at
sea, that included a flotilla of 40
personal and company boats,
Baywatch, a helicopter (the one
he learned to fly this past year),
the Veterans of Foreign Wars
Color Guard, and a sky message
plane flying the banner "We
Love You Jimmy," the memorial
at sea was both inspiring and
touching.
Afterward, Mr. Walker's
friends and loved ones gathered
at his favorite stomping grounds;
the Two Harbors Restaurant, for
Walker's celebration of life.
About 300 folks turned out for
the "party," as Walker had
requested.
In true Walker fashion, he had
made a special request to his next
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Friday & Saturday
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Sunday
Tuesday,
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Come out and have a cocktail
by the bay and enjoy some of
the best music around
James "Admiral" Walker was an
institution at Two Harbors.
of kin, Skye Walker, that upon It is quite impossible to
his demise, his friends on Catali- encapsulate all he was and all he
na gather together to have a party meant to so many people.
on his behalf, where he typically He leaves behind a void in the
insisted on "picking up the tab," souls of those who knew this
leaving instructions as to how the wonderful man, but also a legacy
tab was to be covered, of joy for having had the oppor-
Throughout the tribute on tunity to know him.
Tuesday, friends remembered the As his friends and followers
man for what he was; a true gen- go through their daily lives in his
tleman, a wise and considerate absence, there's not much doubt
friend, a class act in all respects, that Jim Walker is up there stall-
His passion for life extended ing somewhere, probably playing
across social and cultural lines, his ukulele, and flying his own
from his Catalina Island admirers personal helicopter, or water ski-
to his mainland family and ing on the glassed off surface-of
friends, the big pond in the sky.
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