Llewellyn Walker

Llewellyn, the first daughter of Joseph D. and Lovey E. Husketh, was born on June 7, 1911. Her education was started at P. S. #101 in East Baltimore. The class of 1927 was the first junior high school in Maryland. Later she attended Douglass High School, Coppin, Morgan, Loyola and Johns Hopkins University.Her mother was a well known musician in the Baltimore community. This exposed Llewellyn and her sister Burneita to all sorts of musical expressions and social experiences. She studied piano, voice and dance under her mother, Ellsworth Toomey and Sheldon Haskins. These gifts she generously shared with her faculty and students at P. S. #101, #108, #110, #37 and #250 where Llewellyn was an elementary school teacher for many years, a profession to which she was very committed.The love of travel was instilled in her as a child. Her parents believed travel was an education, and she traveled extensively throughout her lifetime.Her home was a Christian one, so it was natural that she attend church, Sunday school and B.Y.P.U. For seventy years she was a member of People’s Christian Church (now Memorial Baptist Church). Her duties there included Sunday school teacher, junior choir member and historian.In 1938, she and Orris G. Walker married. Of this union two sons were born, Orris Jr. and Lance H. Walker. Dr. and Mrs. Walker enjoyed a very active family and social life. For years Llewellyn was affiliated with We Wives, Who’s Its, the Stork Club, Jack and Jill, Stitch and Chatter, Alpha Wives, Dental Wives and the Truth Seekers (a Bible study group). Her greatest joy came when her grandchildren were born. After retiring from the school system in 1972 (as a Reading Specialist), Llewellyn had more time to visit nursing homes, to read and travel to visit the grandchildren. For over fifty years she spent her summers at Arundel-On-The-Bay in Annapolis. During the early summers at the beach house, she conducted weekly Sunday school classes at her home and was involved in the planning of day camp activities for the children of the community. In her final years, she enjoyed her great-grandchildren and the companionship of new friends and neighbors in Baltimore and Annapolis.She departed this life on November 24, 2007, leaving to cherish her memory: her devoted sons, Orris Jr. (Norma) and Lance (Brenda); grandchildren, Nicole, Tony, Angela and Jibri (Jodi); great-grandchildren, Luna, Maia, Hasan and Kamal; her niece, Kay; nephew, Marshall (Jo Ann); grand-nephews, Romulus and Sean; grand-nieces, Kimberley and Stacey; other relatives and a host of friends.

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Llewellyn Walker

June 7, 1911 - November 24, 2007