Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Saturday, October 22, 2005

LAVERA OZELL WALKER

Cox Funeral Home
Lake Providence, LA

Funeral services for LaVera Ozell Walker, age 84, of Cary, North Carolina will be held at 2:00 PM on Sunday, October 23, 2005 at the Transylvania Baptist Church in Transylvania, Louisiana. Reverend Paul Stephens will officate. Visitation will be from 1:00 PM until time of service Sunday at the church.

Burial will follow in the New Forest Cemetery in Forest, Louisiana.

Mrs. Walker died Thursday, October 20, 2005 in Cary, North Carolina.

She is preceded in death by her husband, Melton Byrne Walker; her parents, Robert Jason McCarty and Winnie Dukes McCarty; and four brothers, Jack McCarty, Freeman McCarty, Vernon McCarty and Hulon ``Buster'' McCarty.

She is survived by six daughters, Betty Walley of Dallas, Texas; Dianne Nylander of Santa Fe, New Mexico; Joyce McCord of Brownsboro, Texas; Ginger Robbins of Cary, North Carolina; Nancy Walker of Fredricksburg, Texas; and Sherri Fastabend of Lake Charles, Louisiana; sister, Belle Gardner of Houston, Texas; six grandchildren, Suzanne Anderson, Ron Walley, Christi Bower, Erin Robbins, Chelsea Fastabend and William Fastabend; four great grandchildren, Lauren Walley, Chase Anderson, Gabby Walley and Pierce Anderson.