PRES WALKER
1957 - 1970
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
DEN


Preston Walker was the publisher of the GJT Daily Sentinel newspaper in 1959 and on the Board.
The Jun 1970 says he died May 28, 1970 while rafting in western Colorado.
-Jake Lamkins
(11/11/05)

Swift Newspapers adds Free Press to its roster
By Ellen Miller, Special to the News
January 6, 2005
GRAND JUNCTION - Swift Newspapers Inc. has added the 
20-month-old Grand Junction Free Press to its growing list of newspaper properties, 
which now includes six dailies and seven weeklies in Colorado.
The sale was made public in the Free Press on Tuesday in a news release issued by the company 
and in an editorial column by the new publisher, longtime Colorado newspaperman Bob Lombardi. 
The Free Press staff was informed of the change Monday afternoon.	
Founding Free Press publisher John Duffy is no longer with the newspaper. 
His partners in starting the venture, which printed its first edition May 19, 2003, 
are Bob Wilson and Chan Edmonds, both of Mesa County.
A consultant to the new paper has been Ken Johnson, former editor of The (Grand Junction) Daily Sentinel 
who inherited that paper in 1970 upon the sudden death of sole owner Preston Walker. 
Johnson later sold The Daily Sentinel to Cox Enterprises of Atlanta.  
-Jake Lamkins
(2/19/06)

Found his eulogy from the Jun 1970 FL News.
Never was able to find him in the SSDI.
-Jake Lamkins
(7/18/10)

FLacebook - FL Club
FLight West: Walter Walker
DEN board member Walter Walker's memorial webpage has been posted:
http://FAL-1.tripod.com/Walter_Walker.html
I just recently discovered that board member Preston Walker's father
served on the Frontier board from it's inception in 1950 until his death in 1956.
GJT was named Walker Field after him from 1942 until 2007.
-Jake Lamkins
(3/5/16)

FLacebook - FL Club
FLight West: Pres Walker
DEN board member Pres Walker's memorial webpage has been updated:
http://FAL-1.tripod.com/Pres_Walker.html
Several items added and the webpage updated.
Pres' memory is preserved in an unusual statue with his dad
Walter Walker who sat on Frontier's board 1950 - 1956.
-Jake Lamkins
(4/11/16)