CLEM WALKER

CHARLESTON -- Funeral service was held Saturday at the Shelby Funeral Chapel in East Prairie for Clem Walker, 99, of Charleston Route 1.

The Rev. Ted Wimberley officiated. Burial followed in the Odd Fellows Cemetery near Charleston. Shelby Funeral Home handled the arrangements.

He died Friday, Oct. 25, 1996, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau.

He was born Feb. 10, 1897, in Crittenden County, Ky., son of John D. and Ida May Carner Walker.

He lived in Mississippi County most of his life. He taught school in the Woolridge school system and was a retired farmer. He was a World War I veteran. He was of the Baptist denomination.

He and Edna Jones Walker were married Dec. 24, 1927. She died Feb. 28, 1989.

Survivors include a sister, Dollie Corbin of Emerson, Ga.