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Katherine B. Loker Passes on at 92

Nixon friend created the Library's Loker Center

Katherine B. Loker and Foundation Board Chair Kris Elftmann

June 27, 2008

Statement from Kris K. Elftmann, Chairman of the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation:

Katherine Loker was a woman of seemingly infinite vision, energy, and drive, with a loving heart singularly focused on leaving the world better than she found it through a near-lifetime of her and her beloved late husband Donald's discerning philanthropy. As a devoted friend of President and Mrs. Nixon, she participated in countless ways in the protection and extension of his legacy of peace, including by playing the lead role in the establishment of the Katherine B. Loker Center and the White House East Room at the Nixon Library. If her schedule permitted, she never missed an event at the Library. We will miss her laughter, love of politics, and sharp insights about all aspects of our work. A great runner at her beloved USC, she ran a great race for all her years. She was the greatest friend any institution, and any person, could have.
 

 


RN's Birthplace,
Charles Wysocki


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LETTER FROM YORBA LINDA #65 | January 17, 2008
borderRN's Birthplace: I lived there, too!
By Linda Waldron Bugbee
 

 In 1943, my dad, Jack Waldron, was hired as the custodian and bus driver for the Yorba Linda Grammar School. The school was built on the corner of Eureka and Yorba Linda Blvd. where the Richard Nixon Library is now located. It was a beautiful Spanish style school, with a red tile roof and many large magnolia trees.

In the late 1940's, the school purchased the Nixon birthplace from a farmer as housing for the school custodian, and our family moved in.

My sisters and I lived in bunk beds, with my older sister getting the upstairs room to herself. I lived in the house from 1946 to 1960 and recall we used to swing from the old Pepper Tree which still stands.


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