Martha Rebecca Walker

Martha Walker Services: 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 2, Louisa Center Church, Wapello. Visitation: 2-8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 1, with family present from 6-8 p.m., Dudgeon-McCulley Funeral Home, Wapello. Martha Rebecca Walker, 81, Wapello, died Sunday, Oct. 29, 2006, at her home. The Rev. James H. Huston will officiate. Burial will be at the Wapello Cemetery. A memorial fund has been established for Louisa Center Church, Great River Hospice and the Wapello Rescue Unit. Mrs. Walker was born Oct. 4, 1925, in Wapello, the daughter of Myron Leon and Flossie Rebecca Adamson Daily. She married Marvin Walker on Oct. 14, 1945, in Wapello. She graduated from Wapello High School in 1943. She had worked early as a stenographer for the Old Age Assistance and then as a teller for the State Bank of Wapello. After her marriage and years as a homemaker she began working at the Wapello Livestock Auction on Tuesdays and then worked full-time at the bank for several years. She was a member of First Presbyterian Church, Wapello, and Midway Circle. She enjoyed the Hawkeyes, square dancing, her gardening and the many times at the state fair. Survivors include her husband; a ...[more]

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ghter, Elaine Tolbert and husband Bill of Edmond, Okla.; a son, Darrell Walker and wife Juanita of Morning Sun; five grandchildren, Mark Gates, Angela Millar, Kristen Gates, Jennifer Walker and Adam Walker; three great-grandchildren, Colton Millar, Brayden Millar and Isabelle Bocksell; and three sisters, Alice Carter and husband Kenneth of Altoona, Helen Iten and husband Bill of Naples, Fla. and Myra Mehaffy of Mediapolis. She was preceded in death by her parents and a sister, Shirley Walker.