Obituary published in The Lampasas Dispatch, May 8, 1967:
THURMAN RAY WALKER
Thurman Ray Walker died Sunday morning [May 7, 1967] at 8:30 o’clock at his ranch home 12 miles north of Lampasas after a lengthy illness.
Funeral services were conducted from the First Baptist Church in Lampasas Monday afternoon at 3 p.m. with the Rev. Jim Banks officiating assisted by the Rev. Adrian Coleman. Interment was in Smith Cemetery, School Creek community. Arrangements were in charge of Briggs-Gamel Funeral Home.
Mr. Walker, son of the late Walter and Cora Jane Stanley Walker, was born June 13, 1901, in Lampasas County on the ranch where he lived and worked all of his life.
He was a prominent rancher and Hereford breeder. He was a past president of the Capitol Area Hereford Association and a member and director of the Texas Hereford Association.
Mr. Walker was a lifelong member of the School Creek Baptist Church and a deacon in that church.
One who knew him well said, “Although he lived all of his life within a half-mile of the place where he was born, few men could have lived life fuller. He strove for perfection. He was not satisfied with less than perfection in his cattle, in the beauty of the land he loved, and he imparted something of this enthusiasm to all who knew him.
“He was ill for three years before his death, years he lived with courage and good humor. Many came to visit him to cheer him up and were themselves unburdened by his faith and courage.
“Born near the turn of the century, he saw marvelous changes unfold in his lifetime. He followed the plow as a young man and lived to see the land worked by tractors. He read by lamplight as a boy and lived to see electricity illuminate the farms.”
Surviving are his widow, the former Florence Leifeste whom he married December 24, 1922, three daughters, Mrs. Weldon Brewer of Gainesville, Mrs. James Wright of Fort Worth, and Mrs. Edward Williamson of Salt Lake City, Utah; a brother, Lewis Conrad Walker of Lampasas; and nine grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Barney Burns, Brownlee Field, Clyde Hetherly, John B. Langford, E. E. Madison, and C. A. Northington.
THURMAN RAY WALKER
Thurman Ray Walker died Sunday morning [May 7, 1967] at 8:30 o’clock at his ranch home 12 miles north of Lampasas after a lengthy illness.
Funeral services were conducted from the First Baptist Church in Lampasas Monday afternoon at 3 p.m. with the Rev. Jim Banks officiating assisted by the Rev. Adrian Coleman. Interment was in Smith Cemetery, School Creek community. Arrangements were in charge of Briggs-Gamel Funeral Home.
Mr. Walker, son of the late Walter and Cora Jane Stanley Walker, was born June 13, 1901, in Lampasas County on the ranch where he lived and worked all of his life.
He was a prominent rancher and Hereford breeder. He was a past president of the Capitol Area Hereford Association and a member and director of the Texas Hereford Association.
Mr. Walker was a lifelong member of the School Creek Baptist Church and a deacon in that church.
One who knew him well said, “Although he lived all of his life within a half-mile of the place where he was born, few men could have lived life fuller. He strove for perfection. He was not satisfied with less than perfection in his cattle, in the beauty of the land he loved, and he imparted something of this enthusiasm to all who knew him.
“He was ill for three years before his death, years he lived with courage and good humor. Many came to visit him to cheer him up and were themselves unburdened by his faith and courage.
“Born near the turn of the century, he saw marvelous changes unfold in his lifetime. He followed the plow as a young man and lived to see the land worked by tractors. He read by lamplight as a boy and lived to see electricity illuminate the farms.”
Surviving are his widow, the former Florence Leifeste whom he married December 24, 1922, three daughters, Mrs. Weldon Brewer of Gainesville, Mrs. James Wright of Fort Worth, and Mrs. Edward Williamson of Salt Lake City, Utah; a brother, Lewis Conrad Walker of Lampasas; and nine grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Barney Burns, Brownlee Field, Clyde Hetherly, John B. Langford, E. E. Madison, and C. A. Northington.
Obituary published in The Lampasas Dispatch, May 8, 1967:
THURMAN RAY WALKER
Thurman Ray Walker died Sunday morning [May 7, 1967] at 8:30 o’clock at his ranch home 12 miles north of Lampasas after a lengthy illness.
Funeral services were conducted from the First Baptist Church in Lampasas Monday afternoon at 3 p.m. with the Rev. Jim Banks officiating assisted by the Rev. Adrian Coleman. Interment was in Smith Cemetery, School Creek community. Arrangements were in charge of Briggs-Gamel Funeral Home.
Mr. Walker, son of the late Walter and Cora Jane Stanley Walker, was born June 13, 1901, in Lampasas County on the ranch where he lived and worked all of his life.
He was a prominent rancher and Hereford breeder. He was a past president of the Capitol Area Hereford Association and a member and director of the Texas Hereford Association.
Mr. Walker was a lifelong member of the School Creek Baptist Church and a deacon in that church.
One who knew him well said, “Although he lived all of his life within a half-mile of the place where he was born, few men could have lived life fuller. He strove for perfection. He was not satisfied with less than perfection in his cattle, in the beauty of the land he loved, and he imparted something of this enthusiasm to all who knew him.
“He was ill for three years before his death, years he lived with courage and good humor. Many came to visit him to cheer him up and were themselves unburdened by his faith and courage.
“Born near the turn of the century, he saw marvelous changes unfold in his lifetime. He followed the plow as a young man and lived to see the land worked by tractors. He read by lamplight as a boy and lived to see electricity illuminate the farms.”
Surviving are his widow, the former Florence Leifeste whom he married December 24, 1922, three daughters, Mrs. Weldon Brewer of Gainesville, Mrs. James Wright of Fort Worth, and Mrs. Edward Williamson of Salt Lake City, Utah; a brother, Lewis Conrad Walker of Lampasas; and nine grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Barney Burns, Brownlee Field, Clyde Hetherly, John B. Langford, E. E. Madison, and C. A. Northington.
THURMAN RAY WALKER
Thurman Ray Walker died Sunday morning [May 7, 1967] at 8:30 o’clock at his ranch home 12 miles north of Lampasas after a lengthy illness.
Funeral services were conducted from the First Baptist Church in Lampasas Monday afternoon at 3 p.m. with the Rev. Jim Banks officiating assisted by the Rev. Adrian Coleman. Interment was in Smith Cemetery, School Creek community. Arrangements were in charge of Briggs-Gamel Funeral Home.
Mr. Walker, son of the late Walter and Cora Jane Stanley Walker, was born June 13, 1901, in Lampasas County on the ranch where he lived and worked all of his life.
He was a prominent rancher and Hereford breeder. He was a past president of the Capitol Area Hereford Association and a member and director of the Texas Hereford Association.
Mr. Walker was a lifelong member of the School Creek Baptist Church and a deacon in that church.
One who knew him well said, “Although he lived all of his life within a half-mile of the place where he was born, few men could have lived life fuller. He strove for perfection. He was not satisfied with less than perfection in his cattle, in the beauty of the land he loved, and he imparted something of this enthusiasm to all who knew him.
“He was ill for three years before his death, years he lived with courage and good humor. Many came to visit him to cheer him up and were themselves unburdened by his faith and courage.
“Born near the turn of the century, he saw marvelous changes unfold in his lifetime. He followed the plow as a young man and lived to see the land worked by tractors. He read by lamplight as a boy and lived to see electricity illuminate the farms.”
Surviving are his widow, the former Florence Leifeste whom he married December 24, 1922, three daughters, Mrs. Weldon Brewer of Gainesville, Mrs. James Wright of Fort Worth, and Mrs. Edward Williamson of Salt Lake City, Utah; a brother, Lewis Conrad Walker of Lampasas; and nine grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Barney Burns, Brownlee Field, Clyde Hetherly, John B. Langford, E. E. Madison, and C. A. Northington.
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