Helen Louise Sykes Walker

Published 6:00 am Sunday, July 17, 2011

    Services for Helen Louise Sykes Walker will be today at 2 p.m. at Wright’s Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Bill Roberts officiating. Burial will be in Odd Fellows Cemetery. Wright’s Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.

    Mrs. Walker, 82, of Quitman, died Saturday, July 12, 2011 at her daughter’s residence in Broadway, VA.

    Survivors include her son, Joe Evans II; daughters, Helen Strickland and Carolyn Price; 5 grandchildren, Jonathan Borne, Jodie Lucas, Joe Evans III, Johanna Gones, and Benjamin Evans; 11 great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews and extended family members.

    She was a member of the New Market Seventh Day Adventist Church in New Market, Virginia.  Mrs. Walker was also retired from the Mississippi Forestry Commission.

    Pallbearers will be Keith Robinson, Brad Odom, Lee McCollough, Luke McCollough, Joe Evans III, and Jonathan Borne.  Honorary pallbearer will be Mike Crowell.