Ms. Ruth D. Walker

Obituary Ruth Dean Walker was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas to Alex Blair and Corine Belle Walker. Ruth graduated from Western Baptist Bible College. She worked for many years as a secretary and a teacher for the college. Ruth lived her life to the fullest. She learned a lot throughout her life and applied her knowledge to become an exceptional woman. She was very family oriented and had a passion for counseling for her friends and family. Ruth enjoyed playing the piano and singing. Ruth leaves to cherish her memory her children Deborah, Brentha, Donald, William, Edith, Derrrick, Peggy, Gary, Linda, and Kathy. She also leaves a host of nieces, nephews and many other family and friends. Ruth was preceded in death by her son Donald and her daughters Brentha and Kathy. The family of Ruth Dean Walker wish to extend our sincerest appreciation to our many friends and family for all acts of kindness expressions of sympathy and comfort shown during these hours of bereavement. Your generosity of giving sympathetic understanding has provided us with great strength, and aided us to lighten our heavy burden at this time. May God bless each of you. Still I Rise, you may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies. you may tread me in the very dirty but still, like dust I rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you upset with gloom? Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells pumping in my living room. just like mons and like suns, with certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I Rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and Lowered eyes? shoulders falling down like teardrops, Weakened by my soulful cries. Does my haughtiness offend you? Don’t you take it awful hard? Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines Diggin’ in my backyard you may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still like air, I’ll rise. does my sexiness upset you? does it comes as a surprise? that I dance like I’ve got diamonds At to meeting of my thighs? out of the huts of history’s shame I rise up from a past thats rooted in pain I rise I’m a black ocean leaping and wide, welling and swelling I bear in the tide. leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise. into a day break that’s wondrously clear I rise bringing the gifts that the ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise, I rise I rise. By Mayo Angelou Funeral Service will be held Thursday, September 30, 2021, at 1:00pm at Lawrence A. Jones & Sons Funeral Chapel. Interment Blue Ridge Lawn Cemetery. Visitation will be from 12pm-1pm at the chapel. Service conducted by Lawrence A. Jones & Sons Funeral Chapel. Condolences may be shared on our website. To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Ms. Ruth D. Walker, please visit our floral store. Read More

Ms. Ruth D. Walker

April 19, 1933 - September 22, 2021