Obit of Bertha Walker - Grady County, Oklahoma

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::Fairlawn Cemetery--Chickasha OK

The Chickasha Express-Star 6 September 2000

Bertha was born the daughter of Emmett Andrew Cunningham and Mittie A. 
Jenkins Cunningham on March 7, 1914, in Alex, Grady County, Oklahoma. She 
died on September 4, 2000, in Lenexa, Kansas.

Mrs. Walker graduated from Oklahoma College for Women in Chickasha in 1936. 
On July 19, 1937, she married George Melvin Walker in Chickasha. She taught 
one year in Beggs, Oklahoma and following her marriage accompanied her 
husband to Southwestern Baptist Seminary where she graduated in 1940 with a 
Master of Religious Education degree. She and her husband pastored churches 
at Sharon Baptist Church and Eaves City Baptist Church in Oklahoma, Alta 
Vista and Greensburg churches in Kansas, Las Animas and Pueblo churches in 
Colorado, Livingston Montana Baptist Church, and Hamburg, Iowa where they 
retired and moved back to Chickasha on January 1, 1975. While in Colorado, 
Mrs. Walker did substitute teaching in several large high schools in Pueblo, 
becoming a permanent substitute in home economics.

Bertha was very active in church circles and taught Sunday School for many 
years in the churches that she and her husband pastored. She was also a 
member of the Kappa Omicron Phi honorary Home Economics Club.
She was preceded in death by her parents, three brothers and two sisters.

Survivors include her husband, Rev. Melvin Walker of the home; daughter, 
Virginia Sue White of Angel Camp, California; daughter, Marilyn Coberly of 
Overland Park, Kansas; grandchildren, Terry White, Deborah White, Matthew 
Coberly and Lesli Lundquist; great grandchild, Delaney White; sisters, Stella 
May Grisham of Chickasha and Edna Standridge of Lindsay.

Interment will be in the Fairlawn Cemetery under the direction of the McRay 
Funeral Home.
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