After nearly a century on this earth, Nettie Sue Olenia Bertrand Walker has ascended to Heaven. She passed away peacefully in her sleep and in the loving presence of family on Saturday, Apr. 16, 2022 at the age of 94.
Born to parents Jacob and Ludy Bertrand on Aug. 11, 1927 in DeQuincy, Nettie Sue was a good student. From kindergarten through high school graduation, she was never absent or tardy a single day, a feat that made the local newspaper. In her junior year of high school, she won her first horse race, a story she would tell gleefully for the next 75 years.
“Mama,” “Mammaw” or “Net” to most, Nettie Sue found joy in the people around her and wonder in everyday life. She retired after more than 30 years working at La-Z-Boy and spent the next 30 years living a devoted, spiritual life around her family in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi.
With a booming, welcoming voice that always made you feel like the most important person in the world, her presence was a positive influence on everyone around her.
A prolific reader and lover of long, loud phone conversations, Mammaw was always in the loop about the comings and goings of her friends and family, children, and now three generations of grandchildren. She never forgot a birthday or graduation or missed an opportunity to make others feel special with cards, gifts and letters. She wrote beautifully and always told the most imaginative bedtime stories.
Nettie Sue is survived in death by countless friends and family, including three children—Diane, Jackie and Kenneth; seven grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and five great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by eight siblings; her youngest son, James (“Jimmy”); grandson, Greg Wolff Jr.; and great-great-grandson, Sam Reeves.
A small Graveside Service will be held in her honor on Friday, Apr. 22, at 11 a.m. at Masonic Cemetery in DeQuincy. Prior to the funeral service, a one-hour visitation will be held at Hixson-Snider Funeral Home, beginning at 10 a.m. until the procession to the cemetery. Friends and family are invited to attend.
Services have been entrusted to Jordan and Amanda Mothershed of Hixson-Snider Funeral Home, 205 E. Harrison St., DeQuincy.
Words of comfort may be shared with the family at www.hixsonsnider.com.
(Paid Memorial)
