Obituary: Funeral services for Nell Walker, 74, of Baxter, will be held at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, August 31, from the Baxter Chapel of Hooper and Huddleston Funeral Home. Burial will be in Smellage Cemetery.
The family is currently receiving friends at the funeral home.
Mrs. Walker died on Saturday, August 28, 1999, at NHC Health Care of Cookeville.
She was born on August 10, 1925, in Putnam County to the late Henry Grady and Nola Edna Lowe Jernigan. Mrs. Walker was a homemaker and a factory worker with Georgia Boot Co. She was also a clerk with Nunally's Drug Store and Elmore's Grocery in Baxter. Mrs. Walker was a member of Dodson Branch Missionary Baptist Church.
Her family includes a daughter, Nelda Sue Crisp of Cleveland, TN; three sons and two daughters-in-law, Lillard David and Paulette Leftwich, Donald Lewis and Charlene Leftwich, and Allen Dale Leftwich, all of Baxter; a stepdaughter, Janice Duffy of Holladay, Florida; five sisters, Olive Lee Jared, Pearl Harris, Doris Watson, and Jean Robinson, of Baxter, Judy Keaton of San Antonio, TX, Henry Haywood Jernigan of Boma, TN. and Norman Bryd Jernigan of Clermont, Florida; eight grandchildren; four greatgrandchildren; and a host of nieces and nephews.
In addition to her parents, she was also preceded in death by her husbands, Lillard C. Leftwich and Willie T. Walker; two sisters, Essie Kremske and Ova Julian; and four brothers Charlie, Thurman, Glen and Jasper (Buddy) Jernigan.
Pallbearers will be Mrs. Walker's nephews.
Bro. Hurshal Riddle will officiate at the services.

She was the daughter of Grady and Nola Jernigan. She had 6 brothers and 7 sisters. Two of her brothers died in early childhood, one before she was born. Nell went to Baxter Seminary for one year in 1942. She got her GED from Dodsons Branch in Jackson County May 15, 1981. She married Lillard Leftwich on September 25, 1943 and had one daughter (Nelda Sue Leftwich Crisp) and three sons Lillard David, Donald Lewis, and Allen Dale. She worked at Nunnallys Drug Store in Baxter and Elmores Grocery Store in the 1950s and 1960s. She lived on the Dyer Ridge Rd. near Baxter from the early 1960s to 1979. In November of 1979 she married Willie Thurlow Walker and moved to the Dodsons Branch community in Jackson County North of Cookeville. In June of 1994 she left Dodsons Branch and moved onto 4th Ave South in Baxter until her stroke on September 11, 1997. She then started living at NHC nursing home in Cookeville for almost 2 years and died from the complications of that stroke while at NHC. She has ten grandchildren.
A rememberance song by Faith Hill "There you'll be" 2001 for my mother.

When I think back
On these times
And the dreams
We left behind
I'll be glad 'cause
I was blessed to get
To have you in my life
When I look back
On these days
I'll look and see your face
You were right there for me

In my dreams
I'll always see your soul
Above the sky
In my heart
There always be a place
For you for all my life
I'll keep a part
Of you with me
And everywhere I am
There you'll be

Well you showed me
How it feels
To feel the sky
Within my reach
And I always
Will remember all
The strength you
Gave to me
Your love made me
Make it through
Oh, I owe so much to you
You were right there for me

In my dreams
I'll always see your soul
Above the sky
In my heart
There always be a place
For you for all my life
I'll keep a part
Of you with me
And everywhere I am
There you'll be

'Cause I always saw in you
My light, my strength
And I want to thank you
Now for all the ways
You were right there for me
You were right there for me
For always

In my dreams
I'll always see your soul
Above the sky
In my heart
There always be a place
For you for all my life
I'll keep a part
Of you with me
And everywhere I am
There you'll be

Song by Faith Hill "There You'll Be" 2001