In the spring of 2007, a San Joaquin County family lost their patriarch and in the winter of 2024, they lost their place of peace at Lodi's Cherokee Memorial Park and Funeral Home. Otis Walker's ...

Last year the grave site of retired San Joaquin County chief of probation Otis Walker was surrounded by grass near a more than 17-year-old scarlet oak tree his family had purchased in 2007.