HELEN L. WALKER DUNAWAY
Loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother

ROCKFORD-Helen Lena Walker Duaway, 83, of Rockford IL, died at 11:09 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 27, 2002,
in Swedish American Hospital.  Born: Feb. 7, 1918, in Oakdale, TN, daughter of Milton J. and Eva Johnson
Walker. Rockford resident for 50 years, coming here from TN.   Married: Eugene Dunaway on Jan. 11, 1952, in Georgia.  She retired from OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center in Feb. 1991.  Helen was baptized into the 
Seventh Day Adventist Church on Feb. 7, 1948.  Survivours include children: Wade Irene Vasquez, Mary Jane (Richard) Barker, both of Rockford., Dwight (Kathy)Dunaway of Roswell, NM, Sherry (Jim) Kolthoff of Rockford, Janice (Don) Watts, Berona (Ken Dodge, Ronald Dunaway, and Conrad (Linda) Dunaway; 30 grandchildren and many great-grandchildren.  Predeceased by husband, Eugene; daughter Roslinda Farrish; and sons, Eugene Jr. and Lon Dunaway.

Services at 11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, in Fred C. Olson Funeral Chapels Ltd., East Chapel, 1001 Second
Ave., with Pastor Carlos Pena of Belvidere Seventh Day Advantist Church officiating.   Burial: in Scandinavian
Cemetery.   Visitation from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, in the East Chapel.   Memorials to: Seventh Day
Adventist Church, 230 Van Buren St., Belvidere, IL 61008.  1-29-2002. [Rockford Register Star]


Courtesy of Judith Pitcock

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