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Submitted: 7/12/20 • Approved: 7/12/20 • Last Updated: 7/15/20 • R333204-G333202-S3
November 24, 1909-March 4, 2011
In All Things Give Thanks To God
Photo, courtesy of Kay Marshall
*Obituary
Cloie Walker Stephens, 101, of Amarillo, died Friday, March 4, 2011.
Services will be at noon today in Boxwell Brothers Ivy Chapel. Graveside services will be at 4 p.m. in Hansford Cemetery near Spearman. Arrangements are by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors, 2800 Paramount Blvd.
Mrs. Stephens was born Nov. 24, 1909, in Chapel Hill, Ark., to Minnie May and George Washington Setliff, the fourth of nine children. She married Marshall W. Walker on July 18, 1927, in Eldorado, Okla. He died in Spearman on Oct. 8, 1976. She and Mr. Walker operated Walker's Upholstery there.
She was an active member of the First Baptist Church in Spearman. She taught Sunday school and training union and participated in many Women's Missionary Union projects. She sang in the church choir.
She moved to Amarillo in 1978. She married Frank L. Stephens on March 15, 1986, in Amarillo. He died March 2, 2001.
She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Amarillo, singing in the Heritage Choir for several years.
She was a resident of Craig Methodist Retirement community for 13 years. The family wishes to thank the staff for their devoted care all these years. The family also would like to thank Bobbie and Katrisa of BSA Hospice for their care and support.
Survivors include two sons, Marshall L. Walker and wife Beth of Murfreesboro, Tenn., and James R. Walker and wife Patricia of San Antonio; two daughters, Angie Walker Barker and Lueise Walker Tyson and husband Milt of Amarillo; three grandsons, Nick Tyson of Amarillo, Matt Sheets of Owasso, Okla., and Lee Walker of Marshall, N.C.; seven granddaughters, Cindy Tyson Brodie of Houston, Cathleen Tyson and Annette Sheets Cross of Amarillo, Nena Walker Egli of Murfreesboro, Tenn., Jimmie Lynn Walker of San Antonio, Bobbie Jo Walker Nelson of Atlanta and Megan Zumwald of San Antonio; two stepgranddaughters, Chris Creek of Amarillo and Beth Bagwell of Pampa; 17 great-grandchildren; eight great-great-grandchildren; and a sister, Dorris Babb of North Miami Beach, Fla.
The family suggests memorials to the Craig Retirement Home Benevolent Fund.
Published in the Amarillo Globe-News, March 5, 2011
Contributed on 7/12/20 by neldapat
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