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| occupation=Retired [[United States Air Force]] [[colonel]]<br>Former [[business]] executive​

| occupation=Retired [[United States Air Force]] [[colonel]]<br>Former [[business]] executive​

| spouse=(1) Adele Marchena Walker (married c. 1962-2014, her death)<ref name=adelewalker>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20140806/NEWS01/140806013/Report-Bossier-City-mayor-s-wife-dies?odyssey=mod|title=Report: Bossier City mayor's wife dies|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=August 6, 2014}}</reConnie Westergaard Cash ​

| spouse=(1) Adele Marchena Walker (married c. 1962-2014, her death)<ref name=adelewalker>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20140806/NEWS01/140806013/Report-Bossier-City-mayor-s-wife-dies?odyssey=mod|title=Report: Bossier City mayor's wife dies|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=August 6, 2014}}</ref>

(2) Connie Westergaard Cash ​Walker

| children=Linda Walker Morse​

| children=Linda Walker Morse​

William Lance Walker (c. 1971-2011)​}}

William Lance Walker (c. 1971-2011)​}}

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'''Lorenz James Walker''', known as '''Lo Walker''' (born September 26, 1933), is the first [[Republican Party|Republican]] to serve as the [[mayor]] of [[Bossier City]] in northwestern [[Louisiana]]. First elected in 2005, he is the fifteenth<ref>Some sources count Lorenz Walker as the fourteenth mayor because they omit [[Frank Blackburn|Frank Barnett Blackburn]], the interim mayor from 1983 to 1984.</ref> person to hold the position since [[Ewald Max Hoyer]] was appointed in 1907 by [[Governor]] Newton Crain Blanchard (1849-1922) when Bossier City was a [[village]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bossiercity.org/Bossier-City-History/|title=Bossier City History|author=Louise Stinson|accessdate=January 2, 2015}}</ref>​

'''Lorenz James Walker''', known as '''Lo Walker''' (born September 26, 1933), is the first [[Republican Party|Republican]] to serve as the [[mayor]] of [[Bossier City]] in northwestern [[Louisiana]]. First elected in 2005, he is the fifteenth<ref>Some sources count Lorenz Walker as the fourteenth mayor because they omit [[Frank Blackburn|Frank Barnett Blackburn]], the interim mayor from 1983 to 1984.</ref> person to hold the position since [[Ewald Max Hoyer]] was appointed in 1907 by [[Governor]] Newton Crain Blanchard (1849-1922) when Bossier City was a [[village]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bossiercity.org/Bossier-City-History/|title=Bossier City History|author=Louise Stinson|accessdate=January 2, 2015}}</ref>​

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Walker met Adele in Fort Walton Beach, [[Florida]]. The couple married at Ford Park in Shreveport and were together for fifty-two years. He took care of her in the final years of her illness. Since Adele's death, Walker married a widowed college sweetheart from his days at Louisiana Tech University, Connie Westergaard Cash, an artist who is three years his junior.  The courtship of the older couple was carried statewide as a human interest story by the [[Associated Press]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/life/people/2015/02/14/bossier-city-mayor-lo-walker-fallen-love/23403909/|title=Bossier City Mayor Lo Walker has fallen in love|date=February 13, 2015|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|author=Margaret Martin|accessdate=February 28, 2015}}</ref> and ''[[The Washington Times]].''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/23/bossier-city-mayor-lo-walker-has-fallen-in-love/?page=all|title=Bossier City Mayor Lo Walker has fallen in love|date=February 23, 2015|publisher=''[[The Washington Times]]''|accessdate=March 1, 2015}}</ref>​

Walker met Adele in Fort Walton Beach, [[Florida]]. The couple married at Ford Park in Shreveport and were together for fifty-two years. He took care of her in the final years of her illness. Since Adele's death, Walker married a widowed college sweetheart from his days at Louisiana Tech University, Connie Westergaard Cash, an artist who is three years his junior.  The courtship of the older couple was carried statewide as a human interest story by the [[Associated Press]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/life/people/2015/02/14/bossier-city-mayor-lo-walker-fallen-love/23403909/|title=Bossier City Mayor Lo Walker has fallen in love|date=February 13, 2015|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|author=Margaret Martin|accessdate=February 28, 2015}}</ref> and ''[[The Washington Times]].''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/23/bossier-city-mayor-lo-walker-has-fallen-in-love/?page=all|title=Bossier City Mayor Lo Walker has fallen in love|date=February 23, 2015|publisher=''[[The Washington Times]]''|accessdate=March 1, 2015}}</ref>​

 

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