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After formal retirement as the associate dean of the TTU College of Arts and Sciences, Walker continued to teach a few classes at Texas Tech. His graduate-level courses were always full and students were placed on wait list for the chance to study under him. His publications included ''Penology for Profit: A History of the Texas Prison System, 1867 to 1912'', his dissertation which was published as a book in 1988<ref name=papers>{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ttusw/00213/tsw-00213.html|title=Donald Roy Walker|publisher=lib.utexas.edu|accessdate=December 11, 2017}}</ref> and ''Frontier Texas Mercantile: The History of the Gibbs Brothers and Company, Huntsville, 1841 to 1900.'' He was commissioned to research and edit the papers of Texas [[Governor]] [[Preston Smith]], who succeeded [[John Connally]] in the position in 1969 and served until January 1973.  At the time of Walker's passing, he researching the tenure of an earlier governor in the 1950s, Allan Shivers. He had research interests in Texas ranching and the evolution of Western Swing music. He was fluent in French, Vietnamese, and sign language and was learning [[Germany|German]].<ref name=obit/> His research materials are available through the Southwest Collection archives at Texas Tech.<ref name=papers/>

After formal retirement as the associate dean of the TTU College of Arts and Sciences, Walker continued to teach a few classes at Texas Tech. His graduate-level courses were always full and students were placed on wait list for the chance to study under him. His publications included ''Penology for Profit: A History of the Texas Prison System, 1867 to 1912'', his dissertation which was published as a book in 1988<ref name=papers>{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ttusw/00213/tsw-00213.html|title=Donald Roy Walker|publisher=lib.utexas.edu|accessdate=December 11, 2017}}</ref> and ''Frontier Texas Mercantile: The History of the Gibbs Brothers and Company, Huntsville, 1841 to 1900.'' He was commissioned to research and edit the papers of Texas [[Governor]] [[Preston Smith]], who succeeded [[John Connally]] in the position in 1969 and served until January 1973.  At the time of Walker's passing, he researching the tenure of an earlier governor in the 1950s, Allan Shivers. He had research interests in Texas ranching and the evolution of Western Swing music. He was fluent in French, Vietnamese, and sign language and was learning [[Germany|German]].<ref name=obit/> His research materials are available through the Southwest Collection archives at Texas Tech.<ref name=papers/>

Walker was one of four children of Gaus Wilburn Walker, Jr. (1917-1961)  of Kirbyville in Jasper County in east Texas<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100892687/gaus-wilburn-walker|title=Gaus Wilburn Walker, Jr.|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=December 11, 2017}}</ref> and the former Juanita Sellers, who is also deceased. He was the husband of Jonette McElroy, a Lubbock [[attorney]] who specializes in personal injury and general practice. The couple had two daughters, Jolie Marguerite Walker of Austin and Jennifer Debs Walker of Lubbock. Services were held on July 23, 2016, at St. Christopher's Episcopal Church in Lubbock.<ref name=obit/>

Walker was one of four children of Gaus Wilburn Walker, Jr. (1917-1961),  of Kirbyville in Jasper County in east Texas<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100892687/gaus-wilburn-walker|title=Gaus Wilburn Walker, Jr.|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=December 11, 2017}}</ref> and the former Juanita Sellers, who is also deceased. He was the husband of Jonette McElroy, a Lubbock [[attorney]] who specializes in personal injury and general practice. There are two Walker daughters, Jolie Marguerite Walker of Austin and Jennifer Debs Walker of Lubbock. Services were held on July 23, 2016, at St. Christopher's [[Episcopal Church]] in Lubbock.<ref name=obit/>

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