Complex sentence: In 1938, Walker married the former Mary Ellen Neal (1911-2002), his college sweetheart, and they had a son, George T. Walker, Jr., of Monroe and a daughter, Ellen Claire Stephenson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1938, Walker married the former Mary Ellen Neal (1911-2002), his college sweetheart. They had a son, George T. Walker, Jr., of Monroe and a daughter, Ellen Claire Stephenson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.