11/10/2015
Barbara McKinney Walker
BURLINGTON — Barbara McKinney Walker, 78, went home to be with the Lord on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015, at the Hospice Home surrounded by her family. She was a native of Rockingham County and the wife of 60 years to Horace Thomas Walker, who survives.
Barbara retired from Lucent Technologies after 20 years of service and was of the Baptist faith. She was a loving and devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and sister.
Survivors, in addition to her husband, Horace Walker, include her children, Ron Walker and wife Sherri, Doug Walker and wife Amy, Sheila Walker Kenyon, Mark T. Walker and wife Dawn; grandchildren, Brian Walker and wife Crystal, Jennifer Starnes and husband Cameron, Philipp Talley, Hannah Walker, Kyle Walker, Andy Walker, Cody Walker and McKenzie Kenyon; great- grandchildren, Abby Grace Starnes, Cami Beth Starnes and Lucas Philip Walker; brothers and sisters-in-law, Jesse and Shelby McKinney, Joe and Christine McKinney, Tommy and Ann McKinney; sisters and brothers-inlaw, Betty Lou Patterson, Nancy and Ralph Shreve, Brenda and Larry Stephens.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Jesse Whitt McKinney Sr. and Margaret Jones McKinney; and sisters, Ann Harrel and Lois Minor.
Everyone is invited to the graveside service that will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015, in the Bush Arbor Primitive Baptist Church cemetery by the Rev. Larry Cheek. The family will receive friends following the service in the church and at other times at the son’s, Ron Walker’s, home.
In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Hospice of Alamance-Caswell, 914 Chapel Hill Road, Burlington, NC 27215. You may sign the online register book at
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