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Etta Baker Walker, 91 of the Brindletown Community, Morganton, NC died Friday, March 30, 2007. Born August 15, 1915 in Burke County, she was the daughter of the late S. R. "Bob" Baker and Annie Lou Clark Baker. She was a lifelong resident of the Brindletown Community and on June 7, 1936 she married Robert Joe Walker. They lived their entire married life together on U.S. 64 in Brindletown. Until her health failed she was an active member of Denton’s Chapel United Methodist Church. She was the church’s oldest living member. In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by sisters, Belle Baker Price and Lucy Baker Watts; and a brother, Arthur Baker.

Surviving are her daughters, Mildred Fisher Walker and Judy Walker Franklin and her husband, John all of Morganton; grandchildren, Lisa Fisher, Charles "Chuck" Fisher, Jr. and his wife, Deborah, Todd Franklin, and David Franklin and his wife, Kristi; great grandchildren, Eric and Jason McKinney, DiAnna and Katelyn Fisher, Robert and Crystal Franklin, and Meghan and John Franklin; and a sister, Kathleen Baker Clark.

The funeral will be held at 4:00 p.m. Monday, April 2, 2007 at Denton’s Chapel United Methodist Church with the Rev. Alan Wilson officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7:00 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. Sunday at Sossoman Funeral Home where the body will remain until placed in the church thirty minutes before the funeral hour. At other times the family will be at the Franklin residence, 2282 Propst Road, Morganton. Memorial gifts may be made to Denton’s Chapel United Methodist Church, 5358 Denton’s Chapel Rd., Morganton, NC 28655.

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