Obituary: Kathy Walker

Dallas - Kathy Brown Walker passed away peacefully in her sleep on December 20th, 2023. She was born August 6th, 1938 to Charles and Ellorine Brown in Mathis, Texas. Her life was a life well-lived. Growing up on a ranch in south Texas, she developed a deep love for family, good food made from scratch, and nature. She left the small town of Mathis in 1956 to attend SMU where she was a Pi Beta Phi and studied Interior Design. She met and married Lyle Walker, a popular upper classman from Clovis, NM. After she and Lyle married and he finished law school in 1959, they spent the next years living in various cities while Lyle worked at the IRS. Eventually, they moved to Clovis where they would spend the next 18 years raising their four boys, Layne, Greg, Scott and Trent. In 1982, they moved back to Dallas and lived in a beautiful and inviting home by the SMU campus. She continued to live there after Lyle passed away in 2014.

Kathy loved others well. Her four daughters-in-law, Sonya, Beth Anne, Kelly, and Melanie were welcomed "daughters" whoeach learned so much from her. Each of her grandchildren, Justin and Cody (Layne), Jess, Case and Cole (Greg), Tyler, Kevin, Dylan and Macey (Scott), Kate, Natalie and Blake (Trent) as well as her two great grandchildren, Sophia and Jackson (Tyler), were blessed to have a grandmother who attended all of their games,

ballet recitals, birthdays, graduations, and much more. She loved her three siblings, Burnley, Charleen, and Powell, their spouses, her many nieces and nephews and treasured her many long-standing friendships that included

friends from SMU, Clovis, those she made throughout her 41 years at Highland Park United Methodist Church, her many neighbors and her co-workers at Kaleidoscope Tours and Antique Row. She also loved to serve others. Whether in Clovis or Dallas, Kathy was delivering Meals-on-Wheels, designing and delivering floral arrangements to shut-ins from church, serving at Dickinson Place, and hosting overnight guests (and sometimes monthslong guests) in her home.

Anyone who knew her would say that not only was Kathy beautiful, but she was gracious, welcoming, classy, a wonderful cook who had the gift of hospitality and was a talented decorator who filled her home with art and items that reminded her of nature, New Mexico and her south Texas roots. She cherished her "sister" trips, time spent in Mathis and her home away from home in Corrales, NM.

Kathy loved the Lord and though her family and friends will miss her, they are thankful she is with Jesus. A memorial service will be held at Highland Park United Methodist Church in Dallas on Saturday, January 6th at 10 a.m. in the main sanctuary.