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Sue Walker

1918-2004

Sue Ella Bentley Walker, a former resident of Snyder, died Thursday, Feb. 19, in Dallas.

Graveside service for Mrs. Walker, 85, will be held at 1.30 p.m. Sunday in Hillside Memorial Gardens.

Mrs. Walker was born in 1918 in Claude and attended elementary school near Slaton and graduated from Union High School.

In the late 1930s she went to work in El Paso, where she met Raymon J. �Red� Walker. They were married Nov. 30, 1941. When Pearl Harbor was attacked, she and her husband moved to San Diego where he enlisted in the Navy. Mrs. Walker worked in San Diego while he was stationed there, then moved to Bayonne, N.J., where she worked at the Military Freight Depot in Bayonne while he made 14 Atlantic crossings, including the D-Day landing at Normandy.

Mrs. Walker�s husband was discharged in 1945 and went to work for Texaco that required sometimes moving twice in a year throughout West Texas. They resided in Snyder from 1954 to 2000. 

Mrs. Walker operated Snyder Reproductions, a blueprint business, in the garage behind her home. She was a Girl Scout leader, a docent of the Scurry County Museum at Western Texas College, and leader of the senior citizens aquatic exercise group at the college. She was a longtime member of Colonial Hill Baptist Church.

Survivors include her husband, Red Walker; a son and daughter-in-law, James and Lynn Walker; two daughters and sons-in-law, Molly and Michael Droge, and Amber and Eric Devlin; two grandsons, Matthew and Owen Walker of Virginia; two step-grandsons, Matthew and Michael Devlin of New York; two sisters, Anne Fails of El Paso and Neva Longenecker of Keller; and many nieces and nephews.