FRANCES L. WALKER OBITUARY

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FRANCES L. WALKER
1917 - 2004

Meeker resident Frances L. Jones Walker died June 27, 2004 at her home, she was 86.

She was born December 5, 1917 in Morris to Ella Nichols and William Edgar Jones.

She graduated from Wetumka High School and later completed Shawnee Vocational Pratical Nursing School at City Hospital. She practiced nursing there and at Mission Hill Hospital. She also worked at the Kickapoo Head Start program.

On February 10, 1940 she married Estes Walker in Vian where the lived until moving to a farm near Meeker at the outset of World War II. After retirement they lived in Port Isabel, Texas for ten years and returned to Meeker 17 years ago.

She was a member of the Morning Star Baptist Church and taught Sunday School in Port Isabel.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Estes Walker, sister, Mary Franklin and three grandchildren Amy, Joseph and Phillip Woodard.

Survivors include three daughters, one sister, eight grandchildren, seventeen great grandchildren and one great great grandchild.

Services will be held at Morning Star Baptist Church in Meeker and burial followed at New Salem Cemetery.

Arrangements are under the direction of Parks Brothers Funeral Service in Prague.