Editing Mort Walker (section)

==Personal life==
Walker was married in 1949 to his first wife, Jean Suffill, whom he had met during his time at the University of Missouri. They had seven children: Greg, Brian, Polly, Morgan, Marjorie, Neal, and Roger.<ref name="NDTV"/><ref name="NYT"/>{{sfn|Whiton|2005|p=xiv}} The marriage later ended in a divorce in 1985. His second wife was Catherine Prentice, whom he married on August 24, 1985. Walker had three stepchildren via Cathy and her previous marriage<ref name="NDTV"/>{{sfn|Whiton|2005|p=xvii}} to cartoonist [[John Prentice (cartoonist)|John Prentice]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Walker |first1=Brian |editor1-last=Mullaney |editor1-first=Dean |title=Rip Kirby Volume Six (1959–1962) |date=2013 |publisher=IDW Publishing |pages=5–11 |chapter=Introduction}}</ref>

Walker died from complications of [[pneumonia]] on January 27, 2018, at his home in [[Stamford, Connecticut|Stamford]], [[Connecticut]]. He was 94 years old.<ref name="NYT"/><ref name="WPobit">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/mort-walker-whose-beetle-bailey-was-a-comic-page-staple-for-decades-dies-at-94/2018/01/27/bcd374ec-039e-11e8-bb03-722769454f82_story.html|title=Mort Walker, whose 'Beetle Bailey' was a comic-page staple for decades, dies at 94|last=Bahrampour|first=Ali|date=January 27, 2018 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=January 27, 2018}}</ref> He was interred at [[Willowbrook Cemetery]] in [[Westport, Connecticut]].<ref>[http://willowbrookcemetery.com/tribute/details/85/Mort-Walker/memories.html Memories of Mort Walker]</ref>