A celebration of God’s saving grace for Stanley Wayne Walker Jr, age 58, of Lake Brownwood will be held at 10 a.m. Monday June 10, 2013 at St. John’s Episcopal Church with Father Nelson Koscheski, interment will follow at Greenleaf Cemetery. Visitation for the family will be Sunday afternoon from 3-5 p.m. at Blaylock Funeral Home. Arrangements are under the direction of Blaylock Funeral Home.
Stanley Wayne Walker Jr. passed away June 5, 2013 from injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident. He was born on August 14, 1954 in Ft. Worth, and was lovingly handpicked by his parents, Stanley Wayne Walker Sr. and Mary Jane (Pugh) Walker.
Stanley’s early years were spent in Dallas, until the Cuban Missile Crisis and the school sent notes home asking where your child should go in case of an attack, the answer….Lake Brownwood, where they moved in 1962.
His education started at SMU because he was having trouble with reading, then it was on to St. Michael’s of Angel’s in Dallas. Then moved to Brownwood where it was chosen by his mother that Coggin Elementary was the best school for her only son. She did good because many of his lifelong friends he met there. He graduated from Brownwood High School in 1972 and yes he too played football for Gordon Woods. He attended the University of Texas in Austin and then graduated from HPU in 1977.
In 1978 he went into selling insurance with his dad, for Great American Reserve in Dallas. The partnership with his dad did not end until January 28, 2005 with his father’s death. Stanley didn’t quit, he just kept selling insurance from Brown and surrounding counties all the way to Presido, Alpine, and El Paso.
He was a devoted family man, doing anything for his kids, a wonderful husband who wouldn’t argue, a Boy Scout that would bleed green, and a true friend to so many they couldn’t be counted.
Stanley married his trophy wife Derenda Jo Lawrence Walker on June 16, 1984 at St. John’s Church. God gave them their beautiful daughters that are more precious then gold, Rebecca, Bonnie, and Kathryn. Stanley spent hours driving and sitting as his girls sang in choir concerts, musicals, played volleyball, basketball, and for his favorite softball. He wanted to make sure that his daughters knew that he would be there for everything, he even put this above Boy Scouts.
He was a devoted Episcopalian sitting on the “Walker pew” at St. John’s Church for 50 years. He served on various committees at the Church serving the Lord because he felt it was a privilege. He also served on various civic committees, the Boy Scouts, where he first started as Troop Leader of the Troop 14 at the ripe old age of 21. The “Boys” he had in the troop were “his Boys” and still are his boys even today. He earned his Eagle Scout and encouraged his boys to do the same.
He served on the Heart of Texas Girl Scout Council and was a registered Girl Scout for many years because he attended Dad and Me with his daughters at Camp Wood Lake. The Brownwood P&Z, because he wanted to make a difference and he truly loved politics. The school board, because he wanted the best education for his daughters. He truly was not afraid to use the term “Title 9”.
Stanley is survived by his Derenda Walker of Lake Brownwood, three daughters Rebecca Hill and husband Thomas of Dulce, NM., Bonnie Harth and husband of Brownwood, Kathryn Walker of Brownwood; father-in-law Aubrey G. Lawrence of Rising Star; sister-in-laws Teresa Lawrence of Brownwood, Janetta and husband Landry Holmes of Whitehouse, TN.; brother-in-law Howard Lawrence and wife Caryl of Rising Star; numerous nieces and nephews; his extended family Mary Alice Edwards, Dave Spencer, Becky Clark, Roy and Patty Curbo, Tom Kerby, “his Boys” of Troop 14, all of his brothers and sisters in Scouting and the many friends that he made at Coggin Elementary, the “Red Wagon Breakfast Club”, and the 100’s of people that he never forgot were his friends.
He is preceded in death by his parents.
Online condolences can be left for the family at www.blaylockfuneralhome.com. In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made to St. John’s Building Fund or the Boy Scouts of America.
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