Augusta - Inez Marie (York) Walker, 96, lifetime caregiver for many, died April 9, 2015. She was the first-born to Lillie Mae (Lakey) and Clarence Alvin York, on April 13, 1918, in Neodesha, Kansas. Siblings that followed her were Mary (Hills) and Alvin ("Bud"). After her parents divorced and remarried, Bonn and Buss Walker were later siblings. She was raised in the Neodesha and Fredonia area before marrying Ernest Norman Walker in Winfield on August 7, 1937. They lived in Augusta and had four children: Gwendolyn Delores, Ernestine Lue, Douglas Clarence, and Sheryl Ann. She was a member of the Church of The Nazarene in Augusta since 1971.

Surviving children are Sheryl (Jim) Shaffer of Mountain Home, Arkansas and Gwendolyn (Howard) O'Brien of Newton, Kansas. Surviving granddaughters are Elizabeth (Stan) Dagel, Glenda (Don) Hiebert, Erma (Doug) Clarkson, Vanessa (Gerry) Randolph, Kathy (Jim) Skidmore, Becky Lemke, Vivienne Summers, and Sally (Will) Ferguson. Surviving grandsons are Doug (Kerrie Sunitsch) Walker, Jr., Jim and Mike Walker, Steve (Dawn) Powell, Ernie (Crystal) O'Brien, Eddie (Lisa) Shaffer, and Art (Shannon) Tenbrink. Twenty-two Great-Grandchildren and 10 Great-Great Grandchildren also survive.

She was preceded in death by her parents, all siblings, her husband Ernest in 1978, her only son Doug (Priscilla) in 2010, and daughter Ernestine (Art) Tenbrink in 2012.

Visitation will be Tuesday, April 14 from 1-8 p.m. with the family greeting friends from 6-8 p.m. Funeral Services will be on Wednesday, April 15 at 2 p.m., both at Dunsford Chapel, 201 East Fifth Avenue in Augusta. Memorial contributions can be made to the Church of The Nazarene, left in care of Dunsford Funeral Home.