Walter Ray Walker, 80, of Summerville, Georgia, passed away Friday, May 1, 2015 at his residence.
Mr. Walker was born January 3, 1935 in Trion, GA. He had been employed as an Instrumentation Technician with Henkel Chemical Company. Mr. Walker was a member of the Pennville Alliance Church, member of the Trion Masonic Lodge #160 F&AM, and was longtime member and president of ARC.
Mr. Walker was preceded in death by sons, Kevin Walker and Pat Walker; grandson, Andrew Walker; and parents, Walter Fermon Walker and Rubie Jane Gilreath Walker.
Mr. Walker is survived by his wife, Shirley B. Walker; son and daughter-in-law, Bevin and Rose Walker; daughter and son-in-law Marianne and Jeffrey Trammell; grandchildren, Bo Walker, Robbie Walker, Amanda Walker, Laura Walker DeLay, Charles Parris, Anna Parris, Kyle Parris and Ray Trammell; 11 great-grandchildren; and special friends of Trion Lodge #160.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday, May 5, at 2 p.m. from the Petitt Chapel of the Coffman Funeral Home with Pastor Carlos Martines officiating. Interment will follow in Greenhills Memory Gardens with Trion Masonic Lodge #160 F&AM in charge of graveside rites. Pallbearers will be grandsons, Bo Walker Robbie Walker, Charles Parris, Kyle Parris, Ray Trammell, Joey DeLay, and Jeffrey Trammell. Honorary Pallbearers will be Trion Masonic Lodge #160 F&AM and the staff of Trion Drugs.
Visitation will be held Tuesday, May 5, at the Coffman Funeral Home where the family will receive friends from 12-2 p.m.
The family asks that in lieu of flowers that donations be made in Ray’s honor to the Chattooga County Food Pantry, Summerville, GA.
Coffman Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.