Mattie O. Walker
Published 6:00 am Tuesday, December 16, 2003
Services for Mattie O. Walker of Brookhaven are 2 p.m., Tuesday,Dec. 16, at Spring Hill United Pentecostal Church with burial inthe church cemetery. Brookhaven Funeral Home is in charge ofarrangements.
Mrs. Walker, 100, died Dec. 14, 2003, at Silver Cross NursingHome. She was born in Copiah County on Feb. 2, 1903, to Joseph C.Hamilton and Lou Anna McBride Hamilton.
She was a homemaker, and a member of Spring Hill UnitedPentecostal Church.
Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, JasperWilliam Walker; a daughter, Aliene Walker; two sons, James L. andRobert “Bobby” Walker; six brothers; four sisters; two grandsons;two great-grandsons; and one great-great-grandson.
Survivors are her daughters, Inez Jackson of Wesson, Lou Walkerof Corona, Calif., and Edith Tarver of Beaumont, Calif.; her sons,Curtis Walker of Elko, Nev., and Jasper Butch Walker of Brookhaven;her sister, Merle Letchworth of Wesson; 22 grandchildren; and ahost of great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to Spring Hill Pentecostal BuildingFund.