Joe T. Walters, Jr.

Funeral services for Mr. Joe T. Walters, Jr. of Winnsboro will be 11:00am Wednesday, December 16, 2020 in the chapel of Mulhearn Funeral Home with Rev. Paul Perry officiating. Interment will follow at Northeast Louisiana Veterans’ Cemetery in Rayville under the direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home. Visitation will be from 5:00pm until 8:00pm Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at the funeral home.

Mr. Walters was born March 8, 1947 in Winnsboro, LA and passed from this life on December 13, 2020 in West Monroe, LA at the age of 73. He was a member of Coax Baptist Church, a member of the Gideons, and worked 34 years with the 4-H foundation as a volunteer, where he also started 4-H shooting sports. He served in the United States Air Force during the Vietnam war and was a Black Knight. He actively worked with various youth groups associated with the church he attended. He was a kind, caring man with a great sense of humor and will be greatly missed.

He is preceded in death by his first wife, Suzonne Reagan Walters; and his parents, Joe and Thelma Walters.

Survivors include his wife, Teresa Walters of Winnsboro; his daughter, Leanna Dockery and husband, Robert of Crowville; his sister, Faye Jackson of Crowville; two grandchildren, Ashleigh Killingsworth and Kaitlyn Killingsworth, both of Crowville; his niece, Ramona Roberts of Westlake; his great-nephew, Joseph McGee of Westlake; also survived by a host of extended family and friends.

Pallbearers will be Robert Dockery, Richard Dickson, Doyle Guy, Scott McMurray, Scott Peters, Mickey Eaton, and Ronald Hilbun.

In lieu of flowers, the family has requested that donations be made in Joe’s memory to LA 4-H foundation c/o Joe Walter’s family scholarship, 118 LSU Union Square Baton Rouge, LA 70803, or to the Gideons International.

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Mulhearn Funeral Home
Winnsboro, LA