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Mar 18, 1920 — Jan 31, 2012

Obituary

Funeral service for Ruth Walker, 91, Lawton, will be 10:00 a.m. Tuesday in the Memorial Chapel, First Baptist Church with Rev. Tom Willoughby officiating. Mrs. Walker died Tuesday, January 31, in Lawton Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home & Cremation Service. Mrs. Walker was born March 18, 1920 in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma to T.L. and Ida Francis (Lovett) Fleming. The family lived in the Beaty Community where her father was a farmer and rancher. She attended grade school at Beaty and was a 1936 graduate of Elmore City High School and was valedictorian of her class. That fall she attended Cameron Junior College and in 1938 graduated with an Associate in Business degree. She married James K. Walker on June 26, 1938 at Lawton. He died on December 17, 2003. She was a retired federal employee and a member of the First Baptist Church where she was a teacher in the Adult II Esther Sunday School class. She taught Sunday school for more than 50 years. She is survived by a son and daughter in law, Jimmie and Joan Walker, Sioux City, Iowa; three daughters and a son in law, Nancy and Andrew Bennett, Cleveland, Tennessee, Patti McIntyre and Cathy Newsom, both of Lawton; ten grandchildren, 26 great grandchildren; one great great granddaughter. Her parents, two sisters, four brothers, and a son in law, Floyd Newsom, preceded her in death. The family will greet friends from 3-5 pm Saturday at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to the Robert E. Greiner School for the Handicapped, 10 SE B Avenue, Lawton OK 73501.

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