Obituaries:  J. C. Walker, Jr., Sabine Parish       W-426
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Sep 23, 1966
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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J. C. Walker, Jr.

  Funeral services for J. C. Walker Jr., 21, of the United States
Army, were held Sunday, Sept. 4, in the Beulah Baptist Church,
with the Rev. Coda Salter, and the Rev. Paul Sullivan
officiating. Interment was in the Beulah Cemetery, under the
direction of Warren Meadows Funeral Home of Many.

  Jakie was killed in Viet Nam Thursday, August 25.

  Survivors include his mother, Mrs. Doris Walker of Hemphill,
Tex.; his father, J. C. Walker Sr. of Jasper, Tex.; two brothers,
Benny Walker of Many, and Donnie Walker of Hemphill; three
sisters, Mrs. Gordon Oxley, Mrs. Tommy Cryer, and Mrs. Charles
Pilcher, all of Many; and his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Mae
Armstrong of Florien.

  Pallbearers were Chester Cox, Kenneth Speight, Ernest F.
Periman, Lynn McLendon, Dean Tarpley, Terry Wayne Wright, Benny
White, and Jerry Don McCollister.

  Honorary pallbearers were Nathan Wright, Howard Wright, Wiley
Cummings, Roy Stroud, N. E. (Bill) White, Calvin Cryer, Hoyett
Neal, Don Kelly, Buster Lee, and L. L. Cain.