Opelika, Alabama
JACOB ALLEN WALKER, JR. Jacob Allen Walker, Jr. departed this world on November 24, 2011 after a long and wonderful life. The only child of Jacob A. Walker, Sr. and Emma Lillian Pearson Walker, Jacob was born in Opelika on August 5, 1920. Jacob graduated from Opelika High School in 1937 and...
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So sorry for your loss and not being able to make it to the funeral. If you all need anything, you can call on us. Keeping the Walker family in our prayers and thoughts.
Anthony & Sandy Elders
December 11, 2011 | Opelika,, AL
I am sorry for your loss. GOD bless you all.
Frances Story Mitchell
(formally from Opelika)
December 02, 2011
We are so sorry to hear of your loss. He was a truly great man who lived his life in a manner that showed his love for others, including those less fortunate. I settled my first civil case with him, and am lucky to have learned from him, and honored to have known him.
Liz Borg & Austin McAdory
December 01, 2011
It is with a very sad, yet thankful heart that our family shares through thought and spirit the most incredible opportunity to know Mr. Walker and Mrs. Walker. What an awesome difference they each in their own quiet ways and together as a couple, made in the County we live in. Mr. Walker was one of the most knowledgeable people we have been privileged to know. He never tired of learning new things and meeting new people. It has been such a blessing to know he and Ms. Jane. They raised two...
Janice Nolin
November 30, 2011 | Opelika, AL
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Charles Bonner
November 29, 2011 | Opelika, AL
May your hearts soon be filled with wonderful memories of joyful times together as you celebrate a life well lived.
Jamica Martin
November 28, 2011 | Opelkia, AL
May God bless you and your family in this time of sorrow.
RITA COPOUS
November 28, 2011 | OPELIKA, AL
Dear family and friends of Jacob A. Walker, Jr.:
We feel for your loss. Jacob lived long, but parting is never easy.
I (Greg) was very fortunate to encounter Jacob's vaunted encyclopedic knowledge of history the day he received the G.H. “Spud” Wright, Jr. Jurisprudential Award for his legal achievements. As a reporter for the Opelika-Auburn News I went to see him expecting to spend 45 minutes to an hour interviewing him for a personality feature. We went to the dusty,...
Greg and Angeline Markley
November 28, 2011 | Auburn, AL
Jerry L. Jackson
November 27, 2011 | Alpharetta, GA