Berrien-Irwin County GaArchives Obituaries.....Eula Rutherford Walker April 16 1997 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Kay Music http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00028.html#0006826 February 6, 2003, 9:07 pm The Ocilla Star April23,1997 Eula Walker The funeral service for Eula Hancock Walker of Ocilla, who died Wednesday, April 16, 1997 at Osceola Nursing Home, was held Friday, April 18 at Vickers Church in Berrien county. She was 81. Rev. Joe Vaughn and Rev.Jerry Wilson officiated at the 4:00 p.m. service with interment in the church cemetery. Pallbearers were Billy Hancock, Robert Stripling, Leroy Hancock, Keith Dawson, Larry Daughtery, Roy Hancock, David Ray, Bobby Albritton. Honorary pallbearers were Johnny Hancock, Jimmy Hancock, Jerry Hancock,Ronald Griner Jimmy Richardson,G.W.Pearman and Larry Linsenly. Pianist was Linda Hall; singers Carl Pafford and Phyllis Boyd. The deceased was born February 24, 1916 in Berrien county to Jessie R. and Mary Barber Rutherford. A retired seamstress of Irwin Mfg. in Ocilla and member of Vickers Holiness Baptist Church, Mrs.Walker had lived in Irwin county most of her life. She was a former employee of Jaco Pants Factory in Ashburn. She is survived by husband,Marlie L. Walker of Ocilla; two sons: Leroy Hancock of Pinellas Park, FL and J. B. Hancock of Irwinville; three daughters:Frances Stripling of Irwinville,Margaret Albritton of Macon and Shirley Sumner of Tifton;four sisters: Gladys Bryant of Tifton, Vera Crawford, Thelma Richardson, and Mary Neil Porter, all of Nashville; 14 grandchildren, 24 great grand-children and 1 great great grandchild. She was preceded in death by first husband, Charlie Clowers Hancock; 2 brothers:Leon and Clarence Rutherford;one sister: Ludell Walker. Paulk Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb