Mrs. Maria Palmer Walton, born 1894 in Virginia, was the local beautician/hairdresser in Bethlehem beginning in the late 1950s through the 1960s. With a college education from Hampton University, she was able to be proprietor of her own beauty salon located on Brodhead Avenue, South Bethlehem.
Maria was born in 1894 and passed away in 1978. Her husband was William M. Walton who was bus driver for the Bethlehem Steel plant in 1950.
Maria is the sister to Olivia Palmer Clark.