According to the Orange County Register, Jim Cora passed away on Sunday at the age of 83 following a short hospitalization.
Walt reportedly told the young man to head over to find Disney University founder Van Arsdale France, which is when he told the boy to ‘Tell tell him Walt sent you.”
However, he began to rise through the ranks of the Disney company after a meeting with Walt himself.
Jim Cora started working at Disneyland in 1957, just after the park opened.