{"id":137252,"date":"2025-08-11T15:22:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/137252\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T15:22:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:22:14","slug":"family-pays-tribute-to-zoe-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/137252\/","title":{"rendered":"Family pays tribute to Zoe Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even as a child, Zoe Walker impressed others with her determination and grit \u2013 to persevere, to fight for what she wanted, and to do it for herself as much as for the people she loved.<\/p>\n

It was what got her out of bed each morning: running her own painting business against the odds for almost 20 years. Her father, Robert Walker, said it was tough at the best of times, but especially of late, and particularly for a woman in the trade.<\/p>\n

\"Zoe<\/p>\n

Zoe Walker, who was found dead on Sunday, aged 38.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe struggled with her trade from the very get-up and go, but she had so much determination and [capacity for] self-sacrifice,\u201d Robert told The Age.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe said to me [that] she gets up every morning to go to work because of her house and her beloved [kelpie Raven].\u201d<\/p>\n

Zoe\u2019s attitude to life got her through the death of her brother, Tyson, too.<\/p>\n

He was her only sibling, and the two were extremely close, her father said. Tyson took his own life in 2016, and Zoe had his name tattooed on her in his memory.<\/p>\n

Zoe\u2019s sudden death is now the second in her family in a decade, after her body was found at her home in Melbourne\u2019s outer-east on Sunday morning. Police arrested her partner at the home, and have since charged him with her murder.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe struggled along since she was a teenager. It wasn\u2019t an easy ride, but she was just determined,\u201d Robert said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf she had something, she was going to hang onto it, and she was independent \u2013 that was the most important thing for her.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even as a child, Zoe Walker impressed others with her determination and grit \u2013 to persevere, to fight…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":137253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-137252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115010820151149099","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}