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George Ewart Underwood Walker was born in Scotland in 1911 to parents Mr. and Mrs. George Walker. His family moved to the USA and then Canada around 1925, settling on Glover Road in Milner. He attended Milner Elementary and Langley High School before enrolling in Vancouver Normal School. He was teaching at Milner Elementary when he met his future wife Betty Bowden at the Miss Langley Flower Queen dance (where she was crowned Queen) in 1939; they were engaged in October 1940 and married in Calgary on November 5, 1940. They had two children. He trained at the Vancouver Wireless School and served for five years. In 1944, he returned to Langley and started working as an accountant with the Otter District Farmers' Institute; he retired on December 9, 1972. He was also the superintendent of the Sunday School at St. Alban's Anglican Church at Otter, a Sunday School teacher, and a warden of the church. He passed away at Langley Memorial Hospital on April 3, 1973, and was buried in the Langley Lawn Cemetery.

Mabel Priscilla "Betty" Bowden (married name Walker) was born in Langley in 1918. She was one of the six children of Mabel Priscilla and Gary (Garfield Walter) Bowden. She was the first Flower Queen, crowned in July 1939. She was crowned by Phyllis Izod of Chilliwack, who was Cherry Queen there, as there was no Queen in Langley yet to crown Betty. Betty met her husband Ewart Walker at the Flower Queen dance. He was teaching at Milner Elementary. They were engaged in October 1940 and married in Calgary on November 5, 1940. They had two children. Ewart went away to serve in the Second World War, so Betty moved home to Langley. Ewart returned in 1944.