Alma Adel King Welker, BHS 1940

Alma King Welker, BHS 1940
Daily News of Los Angeles (CA) - Thursday, January 28, 2010

ALMA A. (KING) WELKER Age 88, passed away January 11, 2010, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

She was born November 11, 1921 in Brookline, Massachusetts, to Harry W. King, WWI Disabled Veteran, and Ethel Wilder Crosier, a WWI Widow with a small son.

In 1934 the family moved to Burbank, California. Alma graduated from Burbank High School in 1940, and then from Cosmetology School and held a license until 1983. She married Rex E. Welker March 28, 1942, in Yuma, Arizona.

They belonged to many square dance clubs and to the Model T Club, both in San Fernando Valley and Las Vegas, Nevada. Alma was very talented at sewing and making afghans and quilts and various other things, including period costumes for the many parades they rode in. Alma and Rex lived in Pacoima, Mission Hills and Las Vegas. After retirement from Lockheed they moved to Pahrump, Nevada, where she lived for 26 years.

Alma is survived by son, Rex E. Welker Jr. and his wife Cathy of Mojave, California; sister, Ethel (King) Millar and her husband Lloyd; 12 grandchildren, 36 great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 60 years, Rex E. Welker; half brother, Stuart G. Rowley; sons, Rodney K. Welker (LAPD) and wife Sandy, and Roy Lee Welker and his wife Karen; and grandson, Rex E. Welker III.

Services were held in Pahrump, Nevada, as was Interment on January 16, 2010.