Maureen Walker

After a six years struggle with Alzheimer’s disease and a long summer battling a bone infection and complications of treatment on the 4th of September 2015, aged 77 years and at Baptist Parkway Village in Little Rock, Ar., Maureen Grubbs Walker entered into the perfect peace and glorious presence of her waiting Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.

She married her high school sweetheart (then an airman in the U.S. Air Force) Ernie Walker on May 13, 1957 four days before her Harrisburg High School graduation commencement service. She met him at church as a child and later wrote “I don’t ever remember not knowing him.” His Air Force career took them to sand storms in California, catfishing in South Carolina, salmon fishing in Alaska, catching “horn pouts” in Massachusetts and finally back home to Arkansas. Maureen worked at many places across the years: a 5 & 10 store, a shirt factory, a radio station, a law office, several government jobs including the army, GSA (the Government Services Administration), the Air Defense Administration, Social Security followed by secretary work at Nettleton Baptist and Central Baptist and finally Sears.

Home and family was her life, but Jesus was her cornerstone. She accepted Christ as her Savior in Anchorage, Alaska as did Barry and Sandy. She wrote, “We became very active in the church (Muldoon Road Baptist). The pastor there had a great influence on Ernie. That is when the Lord began to lead, through lots of prayer and Bible study, Ernie into the ministry.” Indeed her favorite “job” was that of being pastor’s wife to Ernie at Childress Baptist, Nettleton Baptist and Needham Baptist before his death in 1985.

Maureen was also preceded in death by her parents Nolan and Mattie Grubbs, a sister Norma Jean Grubbs, and her brother Fountain Nathan (F.N.) Grubbs. She was the faithful, loving mother to Sandy until her death in 2003. Maureen is survived by her beloved son Barry and daughter-in-law Tammy as well as three adoring grandchildren – all by adoption (it mattered not one iota to her) Elizabeth Grace Cossey Johnson, Jonmichal Makoto Walker and Madison Ayumi Walker.

Visitation will take place at 1 p.m. Friday September 11th at Nettleton Baptist Church in Jonesboro. Funeral service is at 2 pm at the church and committal service at Jonesboro Memorial Park.

Pallbearers include John Burris, David Cossey, David McKinney, Larry Newberry, Joe Tomlinson and Ron White.

In lieu of flowers her request is that donations be made to the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, 3806 Monument Avenue, Richmond, VA 23230.