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Myrtle Annis Walker

Myrtle Annis Walker

Female 1899 - 2002  (102 years)

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  • Name Myrtle Annis Walker  [1, 2] 
    Born 19 Nov 1899  Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Gender Female 
    Marital Status 1919  Barton County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Myrtle's eulogy notes that she moved at age 18 to Barton County and that she went to work for Charles and Mae Hoop, later marrying Charles's brother Karl. It does not mention, however, that "Mae Hoop" was the former May Smith, daughter of Mary Carolina "Mollie" Walker and husband Andrew Jackson Smith. Mollie was Helton Alanson Walker's older sister, so Myrtle and May were first cousins. 
    Census 2 Jan 1920  Leroy township, Barton County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    • 1. Hoop, Karl W., head, renting, male, white, 19, married can read and write, Missouri, U.S., U.S., farmer, general, farm schedule no. 12
      2. _____, Myrtle A., wife, female, white, 20, married, can read and write, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri
      3. _____, Chrl H., son, male, white, 4 months, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri
    Census 23 Apr 1930  Ozark township, Barton County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    • 1. Hoop, Carl, head, renting, male, white, 28, married, first married age 19, can read and write, Missouri, Indiana, Missouri, farmer, farming, not a veteran, farm schedule no. 95
      2. _____, Myrtle wife, female, white, 30, married, first married age 19, can read and write, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri
      3. _____, Howard, son, male, white, 10, attending school, can read and write, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri
      4. _____, Lorene, daughter, female, white, 8, attending school, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri
      5. _____, Nadine, daughter, female, white, 6, attending school, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri
      6. _____, Dolores, daughter, female, white, 4 4/12, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri
      7. _____, Norman, son, male, white, 2 4/12, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri
      8. _____ Bobby L., son, male, white, 7 months, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri
    Residence Between 1930-1934  Crawford County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Carl and Myrtle Hoop moved to Kansas between 1930 and 1934. 
    Census 2 Apr 1940  Mulberry (city), Crawford County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    • 1. Hoop, Myrtle A., head, female, white, renting, $5, not a farm, 40, widowed, completed grade 8, Missouri, same place 1935, not employed for pay, working at home
      2. _____, Howard C., son, male, white, 20, single, completed grade 8, Missouri, same place, employed, 10 hours, truck driver, coal mine, private work, 13 weeks in 1939, income $40, no other source of income
      3. _____, Nadine Edith, daughter, female, white, 16, single, attending school, completed 2 years high school, Missouri, same place
      4. _____, Doloris B., daughter, female, white, 14, not attending school, completed grade 7, Missouri, same place 1935
      5. _____, Norman E., son, male, white, 12, attending school, completed grade 6, Missouri, same place 1935
      6. _____, Bobby Lee, son, male, white, 10, attending school, completed grade 5, Missouri, same place 1935
      7. _____, Bonnie Lou, daughter, female, white, 6, attending school, completed 0 grades, Kansas, same place 1935
      8. _____, Mary Ann, daughter, female, white, 4, Kansas

      [Living next to her married daughter Lorene Hoffman and near two Burke families that were probably related to her mother, Cora (Burke) Walker.]
    Residence Nov-Dec 1957  Mulberry, Crawford County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Her father's 1957 obituary named daughter "Mrs. Buford Reeder" of Mulberry. 
    Residence Aug 1977  Mulberry, Crawford County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    SSDI 6 May 2002  Mulberry, Crawford County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Name: Myrtle A. Reeder
    SSN: 510-24-6776
    Last Residence: 66756 Mulberry, Crawford, Kansas, USA
    Born: 19 Nov 1899
    Died: 6 May 2002
    State (Year) SSN issued: Kansas (Before 1951) 
    Died 6 May 2002  Pittsburg, Crawford County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Obituary 10 May 2002  Barton County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Eulogy for Myrtle Annis (nee Walker) Hoop Reeder, written by her family, and delivered at her funeral by grandson Tom Compton.
    Sunday is Mothers Day. Over the course of the last few days I have pondered the lives of two mothers. I have, on more than one occasion either read or heard the story of a simple woman of great faith. The author of the story tells us that this woman married, at a young age, a poor carpenter. She lived in a society that thought of children as insignificant . . . as property. Yet, she loved children and she and her husband had a son who, also, became at least for a time a carpenter. We aren?t told a lot about this woman and her family. She watched her son grow with a great sense of wonder and awe. We know that she was widowed. And we know that she watched her son undergo great suffering and eventually die. But she kept her faith. Later, others would write about this mother and lift her up as a model for all mothers to follow. Her story is actually part of a larger story that is called the Good News - the Gospel. The author is the Holy Spirit. Her name was Mary, the Mother of Jesus.

    The other mother that I have thought about was also married to a man who, for a time anyway, was a carpenter. Like Mary she watched her children with great pride. Like Mary, she watched her children undergo the trials and tribulations of life. And, as Mary stood in a garden before the tomb in which her son was laid by Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, she stood in a cemetery named for one of her favorite flowers and watched as three of her children were laid to rest. This mother, I and those of my generation, know as Grandma. Some of you know her as mother or as Aunt Myrtle or as sister, cousin, friend. Born November 19, 1899 to Helton A. and Cora E. Burk Walker she was appropriately Christened Myrtle Annis after the Crepes Myrtle - because she was so beautiful. I wonder if Grandma Walker knew how much her daughter would grow to love flowers. I cannot imagine the house in Mulberry where Grandma and Grandpa Pete lived not being surrounded by flowers.

    Grandma was the last of the Walker children to be Baptized into the Christian faith by her Grandfather Helton R. Walker. She was raised in a log cabin and went to school at Summersville, Mo. Her father who, like his father followed in the steps of Jesus, rode the circuit in the Summersville area. He used to rock Grandma and sing to her a little song he made up:

    ?You?re Daddy?s little curly head, your grandpa is a preacher. You like to go to Sunday School and listen to the preacher.?

    In 1917, at the age of 18, Grandma moved to the Liberal, Mo. area with her cousin Ray Brooks and his new bride, her best friend, Gladys. She went to work for Mae and Charles Hoop. On February 8, 1919, she married Charles? brother, Karl Watson Hoop in Lamar, Mo. Grandma was married to Grandpa Hoop for about 16 years and together they shared the joy of eight children. On September 20, 1935, in the middle of the Great Depression, Grandpa Hoop died. Almost nine years later, on January 17, 1944 Grandma married Bufford (Pete) Reeder in Kansas City.

    I know from the family stories that Grandpa Pete did some farming, but, in my memories, I knew him as a carpenter and more importantly as a hunter and a fisherman. I remember spending the night on the ?duo-fold? in the living room drifting to sleep watching the orange embers glow in the coal-burning stove. Grandma would wake me before dawn and serve us breakfast. After breakfast she would hand Grandpa a thermos of very black coffee and me a bag of cookies. Grandpa and I would crawl into the old gray Chevy and be off to hunt our quarry. Grandpa Pete died on September 12, 1967 and we laid him to rest on my birthday, September 15.

    The trip to Grandma?s house was always a treat because she had a way of making each of us special. Recently, I was stunned to find out that Sissy had the audacity to think that she and not I was Grandma?s favorite grandchild. My world really started to crumble when I found out that Maricia, Kim, Connie, Nancy, well, just about all of us thought we were her favorite. And as those of us who are parents know that it was possible that through the miracle of God?s love that all of us were each in our own way, her favorite.

    About 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 4, 2002 Grandma was rushed by ambulance to Mount Carmel Hospital in Pittsburg, Ks. We were told that she wouldn?t make it through the night. I?m not sure the hospital was ready for the ensuing invasion as at least 26 people ( by Maricia?s count) that crowded her room, the halls, and the waiting room. The staff marveled at what a great tribute of love this was and we proudly informed them that this was just the tip of the iceberg.

    The night turned into a 49-hour vigil. As the Apostles watched and prayed with Jesus the night before His death, we watched and prayed with Grandma. About 7:15 p.m., Monday, May 6, 2002 Mom, Aunt Mary, Corky and Margaret Walker, my sister Becky, and myself gathered around Grandma?s bed, held hands and prayed that the Lord would receive Grandma into his loving care. It was as if Grandma had been waiting for her nephew to come and pray with her because she quietly surrendered her spirit at 7:25 p.m.

    I am sure that she was greeted by a whole host of people which included her parents, her daughter Lorene Wilson; her sons Norman (Tuffy) and Robert (Bob) Hoop; sisters Edith Hart and Wilma Abiehl; brothers Othol, Hollis (who particularly looked after her in this life), Vester, Clyde, Raymond, and Kenneth Walker; 1 favorite grandson; and 6 favorite great-grandchildren.

    Mary, through her son Jesus, left the world a legacy of love. Grandma?s legacy of love includes: Daughters Nadine Egender of Okarche, Ok., Deloris Goodloe of Claremore, Ok., Bonnie Compton of Pittsburg, Ks. and Mary Houghton of Mulberry, Ks.; one son, Carl Howard Hoop of Gainesville, Tx.; two brothers, Everett Walker of St. Joseph, Mo. and Howard Walker of Sequim, Wash.; 34 favorite grandchildren; 90 favorite great-grandchildren; 40 favorite great-great grandchildren; and two favorite great-great-great-grandchildren.

    And, in a few short minutes we will go and lay her to rest in the garden named for one of her favorite flowers.

    Thank you, Grandma. Go in Peace! 
    Buried Rosebank Cemetery, Mulberry, Crawford County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Person ID I3564  Full | ProgenitorWalker
    Last Modified 6 Feb 2022 

    Father Helton Alanson "Lance" Walker,   b. 10 Aug 1874, Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Nov 1957, Liberal, Barton County, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years) 
    Mother Cora Ellen Burke,   b. 16 Apr 1878, Kingsport, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Oct 1969, Liberal, Barton County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 91 years) 
    Married 18 Jan 1894  Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [11, 12] 
    • Lance was just 20 and Cora just 15 at the time of their marriage. Lance had the consent of his father and Cora of her guardian, illegible name, appears to be David Hicks, her maternal grandfather.
    Family ID F1190  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Karl Watson Hoop,   b. 22 Jan 1901, Lamar, Barton County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Sep 1935  (Age 34 years) 
    Married 8 Feb 1919  Mulberry, Crawford County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 9] 
    Children 
    +1. Carl Howard Hoop,   b. 9 Dec 1919, Barton County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Oct 2004  (Age 84 years)
    +2. Ella Lorene Hoop,   b. 11 Dec 1923, Barton County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Dec 2003, Kingfisher, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years)
    +3. Edith Nadine Hoop,   b. 11 Dec 1923, Barton County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Dec 2003, Kingfisher, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years)
    +4. Norman Edward Hoop,   b. 4 Apr 1927, Barton County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Jun 1995, Houston, Harris County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years)
     5. Robert Lee Hoop,   b. 19 Aug 1929, Barton County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Jul 1996, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years)
    +6. Bonnie Lou Hoop
     7. Mary Ann Hoop
    Last Modified 18 Sep 2013 
    Family ID F1241  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Bufford "Pete" Reeder,   d. 12 Sep 1967 
    Married 17 Jan 1944  Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 9] 
    • Annis's first husband died in 1935. Her brother Othal's 1977 obituary stated that his sister "Mrs. Myrtle Reeder" was living in Mulberry [Crawford County], Kansas.
    Last Modified 18 Sep 2013 
    Family ID F1997  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos
    Helton Alanson 'Lance' Walker and wife Cora Burke, abt 1901    		Helton Alanson "Lance" Walker and wife Cora Burke, abt 1901
    Probably about 1901, eldest three children Edith, Othal Thomas, Myrtle Annis.

  • Sources 
    1. [S339] Bonnie Compton (1014 E. 7th St, Pittsburg, KS 66762, email tcompton2@cox.net), telephone interview, spring 2007, by Janis Walker Gilmore; regarding her ancestor, Helton Alanson Walker, his siblings, and his descendants, including daughter Myrtle Annis Walker (Bonnie's mother).
      The data on this individual came from her daughter, Bonnie Compton; as a result, I consider it very reliable.

    2. [S339] Bonnie Compton (1014 E. 7th St, Pittsburg, KS 66762, email tcompton2@cox.net), telephone interview, spring 2007, by Janis Walker Gilmore; regarding her ancestor, Helton Alanson Walker, his siblings, and his descendants, including daughter Myrtle Annis Walker (Bonnie's mother).

    3. [S3833] 1920 U.S. census, Barton County, Missouri, population schedule, Leroy township, enumeration district (ED) 30, sheet 1B (penned), p. 186 (stamped, verso), dwelling 13, family 13, Karl W. Hoop household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 19 September 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 902.

    4. [S3834] 1930 U.S. census, Barton County, Missouri, population schedule, Ozark township, enumeration district (ED) 6-17, sheet 6B, p. 262 (stamped, verso), dwelling 127, family 127, Carl Hoop household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 19 September 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 1175.

    5. [S3835] 1940 U.S. census, Crawford County, Kansas, population schedule, Mulberry (city), enumeration district (ED) 19-12, sheet 1A, p. 177 (stamped, recto), household no. 3, Mytrle [Myrtle] A. Hoop household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 19 September 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication T627, roll 1227.

    6. [S4281] “Helton A. Walker Dies Monday Night,” Liberal (Missouri) News, [n.d., after 25 November 1957], [n.p., n. col]; [likely reel no. 31257], State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia.

    7. [S3831] "Local Obituaries: Othal T. Walker," The Daily Herald (Provo, Utah), 8 August 1977, p. 4. col. 2; digital image Newspapers.com (http://www.newspapers.com : accessed 18 September 2013).

    8. [S3836] Social Security Administration, "Social Security Death Index," database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 19 September 2013), entry for Myrtle A. Reeder, 6 May 2002, SS no. 510-24-6776.

    9. [S3832] Jerry Walker, "Myrtle Annis (Walker) Hoop Reeder," transcription of eulogy, Walkers Cousins Home Page (http://www.ozarkcountry.com/walkers/myrtleeulogy.html : accessed 18 September 2013).

    10. [S3837] TOMMY JUNIOR, contributor, "Myrtle A. Walker Hoop-Reeder" database and digital image of marker, Rosebank Cemetery (Mulberry, Crawford County, Kansas), 6 May 2002, memorial no. 87221880, FindAGrave (http://www.findagrave.com/index.html : viewed 19 September 2013). Transcription of her funeral eulogy.

    11. [S3811] Howell County, Missouri, Marriage Book [1894]: 102, license and return, H. A. Walker-Cory E. Burk[e], 18 January 1894; digital image, "Missouri Marriage Records, 1850-2002," Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 16 September 2013); citing Missouri Marriage Records, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City.

    12. [S3810] Howell County, Missouri, marriage license application no. 2141, H. A. Walker-Cory E. Burk, issued 9 January 1894; digital image, "Missouri Marriage Records, 1850-2002," Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 16 September 2013); citing Missouri Marriage Records, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City.


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