Hazel Walker

Tupelo - Hazel Reeves Walker, 94, died Thursday, November 6, 2014, at North Mississippi Medical Center after a lengthy illness. A Memphis, Tennessee, native, she was born August 8, 1920 to Hugh Burt Reeves and Martha Ella Orman Reeves. Hazel was raised in Memphis and lived a short time in Texas. She married Sam Alvis Clark and they lived in Pontotoc for about fifteen years. During WWII, she was bookkeeper for her husband's family business, Clark Lumber Company, in Pontotoc. After the death of her first husband, she did clerical work where she met and married her second husband, Stuart Douglas Walker, and they resided in Tupelo. Throughout her life, she maintained an independent lifestyle and possessed many talents, including sewing, cooking, and handling all kinds of home repair tasks. She enjoyed playing bridge and belonged to a Tupelo bridge club for many years. She loved traveling and in general had a lot of "life about her". Hazel had been an active, faithful, and generous member of All Saints' Episcopal Church. She had served on the Church Altar Guild, and had served several times as a delegate for All Saints' at the annual council for the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at All Saints' Episcopal Church with The Rev. Paul Stephens officiating. Interment will follow in Tupelo Memorial Park. W. E. Pegues Funeral Directors is in charge of the arrangements. Survivors include one granddaughter, Lisa Marie Miller; two great-granddaughters, Kayla and Carrissa Priddle; two step-grandsons, Jason and Derik Koleas, one great great granddaughter; her daughter-in-law, Janet Clark, of Tupelo; and special church friend, Kay Trapp, of Tupelo. She was preceded in death by her parents; first husband, Sam Alvis Clark; second husband, Stuart Douglas Walker; and one sister, Marjorie Diel. Visitation will be Tuesday from 12:30 p.m. until service time in the church parlor. Memorials may be made to All Saints' Episcopal Church, 608 West Jefferson St., Tupelo, MS 38804.