WALKER-GINN, Thelma Ruth (Baker) - b. December 10, 1919 - d. March 8, 2010

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Thelma Ruth (Baker) Walker-Ginn, age 90 of Austin, Texas, passed from this life on March 8, 2010 in Austin, Texas.  Born in Girard, Kansas on December 10, 1919, she was the youngest of two children of Fred and Prudence Baker.  

She attended school in Pittsburg, Kansas and graduated from Pittsburg State University in 1940.  She and Dallas V. Walker of Moline, Kansas were married in 1940 and lived in rural Moline for a short time.  They eventually moved to Three Rivers, Texas where Dallas died in 1962.  She later married Edward L. Ginn.  This marriage ended in divorce.

Thelma moved back to the Pittsburg, Kansas area where she taught many years in elementary and middle schools.  After retiring, she moved to Austin, Texas to be closer to her family.  

Thelma is survived by her six children:  Edward L. Walker of Austin, Texas; Dr. Frank W. Walker of Colorado Springs, Colorado; Thomas R. Walker of Paola, Kansas; Sally A. Johnson of Bryan, Texas; William C. Walker of Olathe, Kansas; and Kenneth R. Ginn of Webb City, Missouri.

Interment was at Three Rivers, Texas.

(published in the Prairie Star, April 7, 2010)