Celebrating the life of
Elizabeth Myers Walker
December 01, 1918 - October 21, 2010
Elizabeth Myers Walker Mrs. James T. Walker
Elizabeth Krenson Myers Walker, known all her life as Betsy, died on October 21, 2010. Born in Savannah on December 1, l918, she was the daughter of the late John Anderson Myers and Carolyn Morton Krenson Myers, both of Savannah.
Betsy attended the Pape School in Savannah and The Baldwin School for Girls in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, graduating in l937. After attending Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, she graduated from Armstrong Junior College in l939. While at Armstrong she was a dedicated member of the Armstrong Maskers. After a brief acting stint in New York and New England, she returned to Savannah where she participated in the war effort as a Red Cross Nurse's Aide. In 1942 she married Lt. James Thompson Walker. She was a former member of the Junior League of Savannah and served as a Directress on the Board of the Savannah Home for Girls. From 1993 to 2003, she was a volunteer reader to the blind at the Georgia Radio Reading Service. She was a member of Independent Presbyterian Church and later of St. John's Episcopal Church.
She was predeceased by her husband of forty one years James Thompson Walker and her brother John Anderson Myers Jr. and is survived by her sister and brother-in-law Carolyn Myers Glenn Robert, Sr. of Savannah; her daughters; Caroline Walker Hill Edward of Savannah; Emily Walker Fernandez Xavier of Watsonville, California; her son, James Thompson Walker Jr.Andrea of Savannah; Five grandchildren: Elizabeth Myers Hill Armstrong, Elsie Taliaferro Hill, James Andrew Walker, Laxmi Stebbins Wordham, and Kabir Walker Fernandez; Three step-grandchildren: Cheshire McIntosh and Christopher McIntosh and Sai Fernandez. Four great-grandchildren: William and John Armstrong and Charles and Georgia Wordham, and eight nieces and nephews.
Graveside Funeral Service: 11:00 a.m., Friday, October 29, 2010 in Bonaventure Cemetery.
Remembrances: Georgia Radio Reading Service, 3025 Bull St., Savannah, GA 31405. St. John's Episcopal Church, 1 W. Macon Street, Savannah, GA 31401.
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Fox & Weeks Funeral Directors, Hodgson Chapel
Aunt Betsy was so funny. She never lost her sense of humor. I loved going to see her. My last memory of her is when I last visited her with cousin Caroline, and Caroline was fiddling around in her bedroom and picked up a bathrobe she didn't remember seeing ever before and said to her mum, 'Mother, I don't know this bathrobe.' Betsy's reply was 'Oh, want me to introduce you?'
- fairlie myers, waltham, MA
Betsy Walker was outstanding for her graciousness and many strengths including her dry and hilarious sense of humor. As one of Emily's friends, I spent many nights at The Point and loved being around her. In recent years, my own dear mother Helen Lattimore shared the same dinner table with Betsy and their friends at Savannah Squares. We all adored wonderful Betsy, and her sense of humor was a sharp as ever. it was my great pleasure to see her again often. I'll miss her, and my husband John and I send our deep condolences to her family.
- Anne Lattimore Janas, New York, NY
The many memories of Bradley Point and of Betsy and Jim and Jimbo, Emily and Caroline are etched in my memory forever. The love of and the zest for life by Betsy and Jim and Barbara and Ed are legendary. I hope they are all coming together in the heavenly kingdom and, with cocktails in hand, looking down rejoicing in the small part of the world they have created. Our love to Caroline, Emily and Jimbo. -Gordon and Roz Maner
- Gordon Maner, Athens, GA
Aunt Betsy was so funny. She never lost her sense of humor. I loved going to see her. My last memory of her is when I last visited her with cousin Caroline, and Caroline was fiddling around in her bedroom and picked up a bathrobe she didn't remember seeing ever before and said to her mum, 'Mother, I don't know this bathrobe.' Betsy's reply was 'Oh, want me to introduce you?'
- fairlie myers, waltham, MA
Betsy Walker was outstanding for her graciousness and many strengths including her dry and hilarious sense of humor. As one of Emily's friends, I spent many nights at The Point and loved being around her. In recent years, my own dear mother Helen Lattimore shared the same dinner table with Betsy and their friends at Savannah Squares. We all adored wonderful Betsy, and her sense of humor was a sharp as ever. it was my great pleasure to see her again often. I'll miss her, and my husband John and I send our deep condolences to her family.
- Anne Lattimore Janas, New York, NY
The many memories of Bradley Point and of Betsy and Jim and Jimbo, Emily and Caroline are etched in my memory forever. The love of and the zest for life by Betsy and Jim and Barbara and Ed are legendary. I hope they are all coming together in the heavenly kingdom and, with cocktails in hand, looking down rejoicing in the small part of the world they have created. Our love to Caroline, Emily and Jimbo. -Gordon and Roz Maner
- Gordon Maner, Athens, GA
Services under the direction of:
Fox & Weeks Funeral Directors, Hodgson Chapel
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