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==Personal life==
==Personal life==
On March 18, 2011, Walker's 39-year-old son, William Lance Walker, was found dead at his residence on Delhi Street in Bossier City.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://710keel.com/bossier-mayors-son-found-dead/|title=Bossier Mayor's Son Found Dead, March 18, 2011|publisher=KEEL Radio|accessdate=March 21, 2011}}</ref> Walker and his wife, Adele Marchena Walker (August 20, 1939 – August 6, 2014), the daughter of Leopoldo and Josephina Marchena and a native of [[Madrid]], [[Spain]], have a surviving daughter, Linda Walker Morse, and two grandsons, Wesley and William Morse.<ref name=adelewalker/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=adele-m-walker&pid=172015162&fhid=6692|title=Adele M. Walker obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=August 8, 2014|accessdate=August 12, 2014}}</ref>
On March 18, 2011, Walker's 39-year-old son, William Lance Walker, was found dead at his residence on Delhi Street in Bossier City.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://710keel.com/bossier-mayors-son-found-dead/|title=Bossier Mayor's Son Found Dead, March 18, 2011|publisher=KEEL Radio|accessdate=March 21, 2011}}</ref> Walker and his wife, Adele Marchena Walker (August 20, 1939 – August 6, 2014), the daughter of Leopoldo and Josephina Marchena and a native of [[Madrid]], [[Spain]], have a surviving daughter, Linda Walker Morse, and two grandsons, Wesley and William Morse.<ref name=adelewalker/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=adele-m-walker&pid=172015162&fhid=6692|title=Adele M. Walker obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=August 8, 2014|accessdate=May 12, 2020}}</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 "Maggie" Martin|accessdate=May 12, 2020}}</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=May 12, 2020}}</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 "Maggie" Martin|accessdate=May 12, 2020}}</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=May 12, 2020}}</ref>