Contributed by Wayne Walker <wwalker@iglou.com>
http://www.webspawner.com/users/walker
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Dr. JAMES A. WALKER –minister James
A. Walker, 70, of Shannon Dale Drive, a minister, died of heart attack
Tuesday at the Medical Center. Services are 11:30 a.m. Friday at Forest
Hill United Methodist Church with burial in Lakewood South. Visitation
is 5 – 8 p.m. today at Baldwin-Lee Funeral Home. Mr. Walker, a native of
Green County, Kentucky, and former Edwards resident, had lived in Jackson
for 17 years. He graduated from Linsey Wilson Junior College and Kentucky
Wesleyan College. He received his master of divinity degree from Emory
University and a masters of Science and doctorate degrees from the University
of Southern Mississippi. He was a Methodist minister for 35 years in churches
in Magee, Richton, Pascagoula, Meridian, Jackson, Rawls Springs, Oak Grove,
Edwards and Vicksburg. He was a member of Forest Hill United Methodist
Church. After retiring from the ministry, Dr. Walker and his wife, Bea,
also owned Christian Life Bookstore from 1979 – 1992. Other survivors include:
sons, Ernie Walker of Pearl, MS., Maurice Walker of Clinton and Fred Walker
of Long Beach, MS; daughter. Kay Frazier of Gainesville, Fla.; mother,
Mattie Walker Wayne of Campbellsville, KY; brothers, Tom Walker and Buford
Walker, both of Campbellsville, KY and Wayne Walker of Louisville, KY;
sisters, Vetrie Milby and Dean Carter of Campbellsville, KY, Mary Louise
Dickerson of Owensville, OH and Laurine Beauchamp of Owensville, KY; and
nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Memorials may be made
to the organ fund at Forest Hill United Methodist Church, 2504 Raymond
Road, Jackson, MS or to Wispering Pines Hospice, 1480 Raymond Road, Jackson,
MS
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Obit: Beatrice "Bea" Walker, 77
Contributed by Wayne Walker <wwalker@iglou.com>
http://www.webspawner.com/users/walker
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Tuesday, April 16, 2002
Beatrice "Bea" Walker, 77, of Jackson,
Miss., died on Tuesday, April 9,
2002, at Hospice Ministries in Mississippi.
A native of Green County,
Ky., Walker was a retired owner of
Christian Life Bookstore and served
as a volunteer at Whispering Pines
Hospice and Central Mississippi
Medical Center. She was married to
Dr. James A. Walker, who preceded
her in death. Survivors include three
sons and daughters-in-law, Ernest
and Pat Walker of Brandon, Miss.,
Maurice and Sandra Walker of Clinton,
Miss., and Fred and Brenda Walker
of Long Beach, Miss.; one daughter
and son-in-law, Kay and Jeff Frazier
of Gainesville, Fla.; one brother
and sister-in-law, Arthur and Brenda
Chaudoin of Greensburg; nine
grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Funeral was at 11 a.m.,
Thursday, April 11 at Forest Hill
United Methodist Church in Jackson,
Miss. Burial was in Lakewood South
Cemetery. Memorial should be made to
the Gulf Coast Bible Camp and can
be made at Foster-Toler-Curry Funeral
Home in Greensburg.
Posted with permission of the Central
Kentucky News Journal