It is well established that the details of family stories have a way of expanding and diminishing as the generations pass them along. With that in mind, here is a holiday story my people tell involving death and fruitcake.
My great-grandfather was Joseph Henry Walker and he lived in Laurel. He owned a wholesale grocery store, was a good businessman and worked hard, but in 1943 he suffered a series of strokes that left him recovering at home.
One day that fall, faced with an abundance of time t
William Browning was managing editor for The Dispatch until June 2016.
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