Gertrude May Walker

Funeral services for Gertrude May Cook-Walker will be held on Monday, October 5th, 2020 at 2:00 PM at Reed-Culver Chapel with Pastor Cletus Jones and Pastor George Hubbard officiating. She will have a visitation on Sunday, October 4th, 2020 beginning at 1:00 PM until 6:00 PM at Reed-Culver Chapel. She will be laid to rest next to her beloved husband Jack Eugene Walker at Greenleaf Cemetery in Tahlequah, OK. Online condolences for her family may be left at www.reedculver.com.

Pallbearers for Gertrude include her grandsons, Mark Allen Walker, Bobby Joe Hutson, Howard James Crawford III, Terry Lee Hutson, and Cornelius Walker. Brent Walker and Dakota Crawford will serve as honorary pallbearers.

Gertrude May Cook- Walker was born on November 10th, 1931 in Three Rivers, TX, the daughter of Albert Bryant and Ida May (Moon) Cook. She was raised with one brother and three sisters, Albert Jr, Mildred, Naomi Faye and Edith. Upon completing her high school, she started her studies at NSU, desiring to obtain her teaching certificate. She would meet and marry her best friend, Jack Eugene Walker on September 11th, 1948 in Three Rivers TX. Together they would raise four sons and two daughters, Jackie Jr, Carolyn, Ricky Dale, Dwight Allen, Melvin Bryant, and Sharon Beth. Gertrude was the definition of hard working, determined and grateful. She split wood with a chopping axe, cooked huge meals three times a day on a wood cook stove, and never missed the chance to tell those around her how much she loved and adored them. As a child, she helped her daddy pick cotton and milk the cows. She never out grew her ability to look after others and make life for them just a little bit better. She raised the most wonderful vegetable gardens and canned every bit to feed her family in the winter ahead. Her meals were fantastic, and you could not beat her chocolate gravy, chicken and dumplings, berry and peach cobblers, and her light as air cakes. Every birthday in the family was treated to one of her cakes. She never forgot a family members birthday or Christmas. She sewed and patched jeans, worked the flower beds, and worked at both the Greenleaf and Ozark nurseries. Her family always came first with her. If they needed something, she went out of her way to make it happen for them. She was a devout Christian woman, reading her Bible daily, and singing the old gospel favorites while going about her daily chores. She enjoyed music of all kinds and especially John Denver. She never complained, that was not her way. She kept that sweet and loving smile on her face at all times, working til the sun went down. She was a member of the Come and Dine Church for her lifetime. The Lord called this wonderful daughter, wife, mother, grandmother and aunt home from her labors on Wednesday, September 30th, 2020 in Tahlequah, OK, surrounded by the family she cherished do much. She was 88 years old, and can never be replaced.

She is preceded in death by her Grandpa and Grandma Jesse Moon, Grandma and Grandpa Cook, her Mom and Dad, her husband Jack in 1996, one sister and one brother, Albert Bryant Cook Jr and Mildred Hitt, her son, Dwight Allen Walker, and two grandsons, Jackie Eugene Crawford and Jerry Gene Hutson.

Those left to cherish her memory include Jackie Eugene Walker Jr. and wife Kathy of Tahlequah, Carolyn Hutson and husband Arney “Gene” of Hulbert, Ok, Ricky Dale Walker of Peggs, Melvin Bryant Walker and wife Lola of Marble City, OK, and Sharon Beth Crawford and husband Howard James Crawford Jr of Tahlequah. She leaves two sisters, Naomi Faye Walker and husband Troy of Locust Grove, and Edith Holt of Pasadena, TX. She lives on in her 15 grandchildren, Melissa Crawford and husband Scott, Terry Hutson and wife Darla, Bobby Hutson and wife Dana, Mary Jane Walker, Brent Dale Walker and wife Rachel, Mark Allen Walker and Sandy Casey, Clarissa Stanley and husband Hubbard, Sonya Walker, Sarah Risley and husband John, Cornelius Walker, Veronica Guerra and husband Marvin, Cody Wayne Christie and wife Sarah, and Candie Linton and husband Daniel. She also lives on in her 32 great grandchildren, 6 great great grandchildren, as well as many nieces, nephews ,cousins and a host of friends and church family far too numerous to mention.