Susan Walker Taylor Walker Taylor

Susan Walker Taylor
1944-2018
North Myrtle Beach
Susan Walker Taylor, 73, of North Myrtle Beach, SC, passed away on Monday, November 5, 2018, while surrounded by family, after losing her courageous battle with brain cancer.
Susan was born to the late Joshua and Vera Ringle. Growing up in Jersey City, she was often affectionally called by her family nickname "Dee-Dee." Sue graduated high school and proudly earned a degree from Jersey City Sate College, now known as New Jersey City University. After working in Washington, DC, Dee-Dee returned home to New Jersey and married her high school sweetheart, the late James C. Walker, whom she always called "Jimmy." They settled down in Newark, DE, and raised two children, Adam and Ned. Sue worked a variety of jobs to support her young family and enjoyed socializing with the Thistleberry girls on the weekend. After Adam graduated from the University of Delaware, Dee-Dee, Jimmy, and Ned moved to Northern Virginia. Residing in the town of Ashburn, Ned soon completed high school and then departed for a successful engineering degree at Virginia Tech.
Proud of her sons' achievements, Susan migrated south to enjoy the warm weather and relaxing beaches. After Jimmy suddenly passed away in 2002, Dee-Dee settled in the same beautiful neighborhood as her surviving sister Betty Kraemer, a picturesque golf plantation known as Tidewater, nestled amongst the marshes of North Myrtle Beach, SC. It was in Tidewater that Susan discovered the closely-knit community she fell in love with. Her neighbors set Sue up on a blind date with Robert L. Taylor, from Livingston, NJ, who became her surviving second husband. Naturally, Sue and Rob chose Tidewater as the location of their retirement home, where the two Northern Jersey natives spent the past thirteen years together, socializing in the summer breeze, playing golf and trivia, and admiring countless Carolina sunsets together.
Susan was proud of having worked successfully in over twenty-two diverse occupations, many of them oriented toward customer service and education: flight attendant, realtor, and grade school teacher, to name just a few. Sue was a member of the Red Hats and Bridge Club and enjoyed traveling the world, having visited Fiji, India, Turkey, Italy, Germany, and New Zealand over the years.
Dee-Dee was predeceased by her brother, William Ringle in 2007, and her stepson Robert Taylor in 1992. Susan is survived by her elder son, Adam J. Walker, and his wife Andrea of Baltimore, MD; her younger son, Ned A. Walker, of Los Angeles, CA; and her grandson, William J. Walker. Sue is also survived by her four stepsons: Kyle Taylor of Palm Springs, CA; Jon Taylor of Lewes, DE; Darrin Taylor of Bushkill, PA; and Tim Taylor of Roswell, GA.
Visitation will take place at O'Brien Funeral Home in Wall, NJ, on Saturday, November 24, 2018, at nine o'clock in the morning, followed by a procession to the funeral Mass which will be celebrated at St. Catharine's Church in Spring Lake at 10:30am. An interment ceremony at St. Catharine's Cemetery in Sea Girt will follow at 11:45am. Afterward, the Walker and Taylor families, along with Susan's friends, will celebrate her life at The Breakers on the Ocean in Spring Lake at 12:30pm.
Condolences may be sent via www.obrienfuneralhome.com. In lieu of flowers, donations in Susan's memory may be made to the Department of Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University, which supports brain tumor research seeking to develop new and more effective therapies. Information for online, phone, and mail gift-giving options may be found at www.hopkinsmedicine.org/neurology_neurosurgery/about_us/charitable_giving/neurosurgery.