Extracted from The Jena Times (Jena, LA)
Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Jennie Agnes Walker

Jennie Agnes Walker, 85, of Jena, passed from this life on Friday, January 23, 2009, in the LaSalle General Hospital of Jena.

Mrs. Walker and her late husband, Hubert, were owners and operators of Walker Marine Offshore Boat Company.

She was born October 29, 1923, to the union of Earl and Clara Hudnall Bignar in Nebo.

Services were held at 2 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 25, in the chapel of Kinner and Stevens Funeral Home of Jena with the Revs. Joey Paul and Danny Cole officiating.

Interment followed in the Walker Cemetery under direction of Kinner and Stevens Funeral Home of Jena.

She was preceded in death by her parents and husband.

Survivors include a daughter, J. Sharon Walker Glaze of Jena; two sisters, Sally Starnes and husband J. L. of Jena and Elsie Walker of Columbia; two grandsons, Hugh Sellers and wife Kathi, and Lance Sellers; and four great-grandchildren, Gabe Sellers, Isabella Sellers, Lawson Sellers, and Slade Sellers, all of Jena.

Pallbearers were Lester Smith, Buddy Starnes, Jimmie Dale Bignar, Philip Paul, Ronnie Evans, and James Paul.