News reaches the Hustler this (Tuesday) morning of the death last night of Mr. Walter Hix, age about 48. He is a half brother of J.R. Hix, and has been connected with the Vaughn-Hemphill Co. the past winter. He leaves a wife and seven children, his wife before marriage was Miss Phillips and a niece of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. A. Forester of Wilkesboro. He was a good Christian man.
He was unable to come to the store Monday and died rather suddenly during the night from asthma.
Funeral not yet arranged.
From the front page of The North Wilkesboro Hustler, May 5, 1926
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