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| 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; material no longer on-line}}</ref>

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(2) Connie Westergaard Cash Walker

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(2) Connie Westergaard Cash Walker (married 2019)

| children=Linda Walker Morse

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

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William Lance Walker (c. 1971-2011

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|religion=[[Southern Baptist}}

'''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; material no longer on-line}}</ref>

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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|date=March 18, 2011|publisher=KEEL Radio|accessdate=May 12, 2020}}</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>

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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 "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>

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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 "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> The couple married in an April 2019 ceremony at First [[Southern Baptist|Baptist]] Bossier, with pastor Brad Jurkovich officiating.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/life/luxuryliving/sceneandheard/2019/04/18/bossier-city-mayor-lo-walker-marries-college-sweetheart/3513310002/|title=It has not changed': Bossier City Mayor Lo Walker marries college sweetheart after 60 years apart|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=April 18, 2019|author=Margaret "Maggie" Martin|accessdate=May 12, 2020}}</ref>

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