In Memory

Norma Henry (Walker) - Class Of 1939

Norma Henry (Walker)

Norma Aileen Walker, 82, died Monday, July 14, 2003, at Richland Memorial Hospital in Olney.  Funeral services at Summers-Kistler Funeral Home in Olney with Rev. Mike Baker officiating. Burial in Forrest Ridge Cemetery in Wynoose.

Mrs. Walker was born on April 11, 1921, in Olney, the daughter of Claude and Myrtle (Gallagher) Henry. She married Kell Walker on November 2, 1940, in Perryville, MO. He survives.

She had worked for the Elks Club, Richland Country Club and Merle Norman Cosmetics. She was a member of Antioch Christian Church and a member of the Genealogical and Historical Society.

Mrs. Walker is survived by her husband, Kell Walker, of Olney; a daughter, Goldie Eckl Della Barba and her husband Jack, of Strasbourg, France and Weymouth, Mass; a son Kelly Walker and his wife, Betty, of Derby, Kansas; seven grandchildren, Jennifer Della Barba, of San Diego, CA, Timothy Della Barba, of Weymount Mass., Emily Gillihan, of Derby, Kansas, Elisha Walker of New York, NY, and Nathan, Jacob and Caleb Walker, of Derby, Kansas; and two great-grandchildren, Keegan and Corbin Gillihan, of Derby, Kansas.

She was preceded in death by her parents and one brother, Howard Henry.

Published in the Olney Daily Mail, July, 2003