Knoxville civic leader dies at 90 (Knoxville News Sentinel)

8 March 2010, 9:00 pm

W. Jack Walker, a prominent Knoxville businessman and civic leader, died Sunday at Mercy Medical Center St. Mary's. He was 90.With a bus converted into a mobile store, Mr. Walker began a grocery business that became the Family Pantry Markets in Knoxville and Maryville, which he sold in the late 1970s. He was also a chairman of the board of First Tennessee Bank and associated with Kenesaw ...... Read More »

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