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==Background==

==Background==

Walker was born in the Wyatt Community of southern Jackson Parish just north of the Winn Parish line in north Louisiana, to William Thomas Walker and the former Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" Stovall (1877–1951), Walker was descended from a large and influential family. William Thomas and Lizzie Walker married in 1896 and had ten other children: Charles Elmer Walker (1897–1941), Pyburn Elton Walker (1899–1987), Edgar Lee "Ed" Walker (1901–1972), Vester Walker (1902–1906), Gladys Oneta Walker (1904–1963), William Elmo Walker (1905–1956), L. Z. Walker (1907–1993), Grace Mae Walker (1909–1991), Edwin Olen Walker (1911–1978), and George Thomas Walker, Sr. (1913–2011).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thenewsstar/obituary.aspx?n=george-thomas-walker&pid=152392279|title=George T. Walker|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|accessdate=July 6, 2011}}</ref> At the time of his mother's death in 1951, the obituary lists Walker as a lieutenant colonel in [[Vienna]], [[Austria]]. "Ed" Walker was a  football coach at the [[University of Mississippi]] at Oxford who led his team to an early Orange Bowl competition, and Olen Walker had been a college football player. George T. Walker, the only sibling to survive William S. Walker, was a dean at [[Northwestern State University]] in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]] and the retired president of the University of Louisiana at [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.transportcemetery.com/Walker_MES.html|title=Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" Stovall,  Transport Cemetery records, Dodson, Louisiana|publisher=Transportcemetery|accessdate=July 19, 2009}}</ref>​

Walker was born in the Wyatt Community of southern Jackson Parish just north of the Winn Parish line in north Louisiana, to William Thomas Walker and the former Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" Stovall (1877–1951), Walker was descended from a large and influential family. William Thomas and Lizzie Walker married in 1896 and had ten other children: Charles Elmer Walker (1897–1941), Pyburn Elton Walker (1899–1987), Edgar Lee "Ed" Walker (1901–1972), Vester Walker (1902–1906), Gladys Oneta Walker (1904–1963), William Elmo Walker (1905–1956), L. Z. Walker (1907–1993), Grace Mae Walker (1909–1991), Edwin Olen Walker (1911–1978), and George Thomas Walker, Sr. (1913–2011).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thenewsstar/obituary.aspx?n=george-thomas-walker&pid=152392279|title=George T. Walker|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|accessdate=July 6, 2011}}</ref> At the time of his mother's death in 1951, the obituary lists Walker as a lieutenant colonel in [[Vienna]], [[Austria]]. "Ed" Walker was a  football coach at the [[University of Mississippi]] at Oxford who led his team to an early Orange Bowl competition, and Olen Walker had been a college football player. George T. Walker, the only sibling to survive William S. Walker, was a dean at [[Northwestern State University]] in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]] and the retired president of the University of Louisiana at [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.transportcemetery.com/Walker_MES.html|title=Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" Stovall,  Transport Cemetery records, Dodson, Louisiana|publisher=Transportcemetery|accessdate=July 19, 2009}}</ref>​

Walker was a cousin of [[Morgan W. Walker, Sr.]], an [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]] businessman who was president and founder of  Continental Trailways.<ref>Obituary of [[Morgan W. Walker,  Sr.]], ''Winn Parish Enterprise News'', Winnfield, Louisiana, February 23, 1983.</ref>​

Walker was a cousin of [[Morgan W. Walker, Sr.]], an [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]] businessman who was president and founder of  Continental Trailways.<ref>Obituary of [[Morgan W. Walker,  Sr.]], ''Winn Parish Enterprise News'', Winnfield, Louisiana, February 23, 1983.</ref>​

==Death==

==Death==

After more than three decades of retirement, Walker died at St. Frances Cabrini Hospital in Alexandria at the age of eighty-four. His services were held on February 9, 1999, at Edmond's Funeral Home Chapel in Winnfield.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bayou.com/~suelynn/99obits/feb99.html|title=Obituaries from the ''Monroe News Star''|publisher=bayou.com|accessdate=July 18, 2009}}</ref> Nine months after her husband's passing, Elizabeth Walker died in Winn Parish Medical Center. Her services were held in the First [[United Methodist]] Church in Winnfield. Pastor Barry Hoekstra (1956-2014), later of First United Methodist in Alexandria and St. Luke's United Methodist Church in Shreveport,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=barry-hoekstra&pid=172602862&fhid=10228|title=Barry Hoekstra|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=September 28, 2014}}</ref> officiated at the services for both William and Elizabeth Walker. There are three Walkere children, Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Walker (born August 30, 1948), then of [[Boston]],  [[Massachusetts]], William T. "Will" Walker (born on March 12, 1950, and adopted in Linz, Austria) and wife Shirley, then of [[Tallahassee]], [[Florida]], and Stewart Abel Walker (born September 22, 1951), then of [[New York City]], and two grandchildren, the offspring of Will Walker. William and Mary Elizabeth Walker, who died in the same year, are interred at the family plot at Transport Cemetery in Dodson in Winn Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/winn/obits/current/sep1999.txt|title=Mary Elizabeth Walker obituary|publisher=files.usgwarchives.net|accessdate=July 19, 2009}}</ref>​

After more than three decades of retirement, Walker died at St. Frances Cabrini Hospital in Alexandria at the age of eighty-four. His services were held on February 9, 1999, at Edmond's Funeral Home Chapel in Winnfield.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bayou.com/~suelynn/99obits/feb99.html|title=Obituaries from the ''Monroe News Star''|publisher=bayou.com|accessdate=July 18, 2009}}</ref> Nine months after her husband's passing, Elizabeth Walker died in Winn Parish Medical Center. Her services were held in the First [[United Methodist]] Church in Winnfield. Pastor Barry Hoekstra (1956-2014), later of First United Methodist in Alexandria and St. Luke's United Methodist Church in Shreveport,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=barry-hoekstra&pid=172602862&fhid=10228|title=Barry Hoekstra|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=September 28, 2014}}</ref> officiated at the services for both William and Elizabeth Walker. There are three Walkere children, Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Walker (born August 30, 1948), then of [[Boston]],  [[Massachusetts]], William T. "Will" Walker (born on March 12, 1950, and adopted in Linz, Austria) and wife Shirley, then of [[Tallahassee]], [[Florida]], and Stewart Abel Walker (born September 22, 1951), then of [[New York City]], and two grandchildren, the offspring of Will Walker. William and Mary Elizabeth Walker, who died in the same year, are interred at the family plot at Transport Cemetery in Dodson in Winn Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/winn/obits/current/sep1999.txt|title=Mary Elizabeth Walker obituary|publisher=files.usgwarchives.net|accessdate=July 19, 2009}}</ref>​

==A previous William S. Walker==

==A previous William S. Walker==