Extracted from The Hattiesburg American (Hattiesburg, MS)
Sunday, May 19, 1974

Rites Monday for Mrs. Ruth Walker

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at the Court Street United Methodist Church for Mrs. Ruth J. Walker, 76, of 113 Maple St., who died at her home Saturday.

The Rev. Fred Thompson will officiate with interment in Roseland Mausoleum. The body will lie in state at Hulett-Winstead Funeral Home after 2 p.m. on Sunday.

A resident of Hattiesburg since 1922, Mrs. Walker was a member of Court Street Methodist Church, United Methodist Women and Thilathea Sunday School Class.

Survivors include her husband, John J. Walker, Hattiesburg; one daughter, Mrs. Jeff [sic Jesse] F. (Jimmie Nell) Wright, Lafayette, La.; one son, Dr. Prentice J. Walker, Hattiesburg; three sisters, Mrs. Goldie Stanley, Mobile, Ala., Mrs. Lovie Cooley, Waynesboro, and Mrs. Odie Attwood, Jackson; two brothers, Vol Jones Sr., Waynesboro, and Ransom Jones, Pass Christian; seven grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews.