Walker Connor (1926–2017): a tribute†

In: Nationalities papers: the journal of nationalism and ethnicity, Band 45, Heft 5, S. 725-729

Abstract

Walker Connor was born in 1926, and was contemporaneous with my own father, so not surprisingly he was a father figure to me. Unlike my own father Walker made it past 90. Those of us privileged to have been Walker's friend will miss his mischievous humor and twinkling eyes, and his fondness for combining rich conversation with craft beers. Indeed his son Dan told me Walker deliberately had a beer a couple of days before he died. All will be pleased to know that he remained possessed of his faculties and character to the end. He is survived by his two sons Peter and Dan Connor, and their partners; by his daughter, Professor Joan Connor of Athens, Ohio, who has inherited her parents' writings skills; and by Joan's son, Nils Walker (Kerry) Wessell, who is with us today.