Drusilla May Walker

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Cheraw, SC

Drusilla May Walker died peacefully at home on October 29, 2024, at 101 years old. She was born August 7, 1923, in Kyabram (Victoria) Australia to Mary (Hall) Croft and Edmond Croft. Along with her parents and four siblings she is also preceded in death by her husband of 55 years, Kenneth E. Walker.

She is survived by her four children, Sheila Draper (Vern) of Jacksonville, FL; Trudy Johnson (Vernon) of Mobile, AL; Susan Malloy (Bill) of Cheraw, SC; and Kevin Walker (Naomi) of Moore, OK; eleven grandchildren and twenty-one great-grandchildren as well as generations of nieces and nephews who loved her as much as she loved them.

"Druie" met and married her husband while he was stationed in Melbourne, Australia during World War II and came to the United States after the war. Their life together encompassed traveling throughout the United States and internationally, but at his death she moved to Cheraw which became her home for more than 20 years. Her passions were gardening and cooking (in which a very good recipe always got "three ticks.") She was thrilled at the challenge of teaching adult Sunday School. She was a prolific seamstress, winning many ribbons for her quilts and was a member of the "Knit Wits" knitting club where she knitted many prayer shawls and mentored others to take up the skill. She was a prolific speed reader of articles and novels and could recite ditties from her childhood (sometime with the accompanying dance moves).

She loved poetry which included sometimes writing her own. She had beautiful penmanship and wrote to friends and family throughout her life for birthdays, anniversaries, holidays and just to let them know she was thinking of them. She had very strong opinions especially about the decline of the world as shown through the news media in papers and television, yet she delivered those opinions with humor and wit. She was stoic as she faced life's many challenges and yet never, ever complained about her own circumstances but instead voiced frequently how grateful she was for life's many blessings.

A celebration of her life will be held at First United Methodist Church on November 9 at 2:00PM with a private burial at Old St. David's Cemetery to follow.

The family will receive friends following the service at Caston Parlor, First United Methodist Church.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to First United Methodist Church of Cheraw, 117 3rd Street, Cheraw, SC 29520 or Thornwell (Home for Children), 302 South Broad Street, Clinton, SC 29325.

Kiser Funeral Home has been entrusted to serve the Walker family in their time of grief. Online condolences may be made at www.kiserfuneralhome.com