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Submitted: 9/11/22 • Approved: 9/11/22 • Last Updated: 9/14/22 • R536395-G536395-S3
Amy E. Bowers Walker
September 23, 1904-November 1, 1973
*Photo, courtesy of Mary (Coggin) Russell
*Obituary
Former Resident To Be Buried Monday
The funeral of Amy E. Walker, 69, of Las Vegas, N.M., former Hereford resident, is scheduled at 2 p.m. Monday in Rose Chapel of Gililland-Watson Funeral Home.
The Rev. Charles Davenport of First Baptist Church at Tucumcari will officiate and burial will be in West Park Cemetery. A service was held at Las Vegas Saturday, directed by Rogers Mortuary.
A retired registered nurse, Mrs. Walker moved to Las Vegas in 1941 from Hereford, where she lived a number of years. She was born Sept. 23, 1904, in Oklahoma, then Indian Territory.
She married Cecil Walker, member of one of the early ranching families in Deaf Smith County, July 28, 1935 in Hereford.
Her family requests that memorials be made to the American Cancer Society.
Surviving Mrs. Walker are two daughters, Ce Goddard of Tucumcari and Laura Fahey of Morenci, Ariz.; a sister, Katie Benne of Edmond, Okla.; two brothers, Woodrow Bowers of Dewey, Okla. and Otto Bowers of Wann, Okla.; and four grandchildren.
(Published in the Sunday Brand, Vol. 26, - No. 20, Hereford, Texas Sunday, Nov. 4, 1973, Page 2)
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Texas, U.S., Marriage Index, 1824-2014
Name: Amy Elverda Bowers
Marriage Date: 28 Jul 1935
Marriage Place: Deaf Smith, Texas, USA
Spouse: C. R. Walker
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: Amy Walker
Birth Date: 23 Sep 1904
Issue Year: Before 1951
Issue State: Texas
Last Residence: 87701, Las Vegas, San Miguel, New Mexico, USA
Death Date: Nov 1973
Contributed on 9/11/22 by neldapat
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