Beulah Woody Walton

Beulah Woody Walton departed this life on July 23, 2019. Beulah was born the seventh of ten children of Wyatt William and Loucreta Wise Woody in Kalmia, North Carolina on April 26, 1925. She grew up during the Great Depression around Hawk, a Cane Creek community, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western NC. Beulah graduated from Bowman High School in Bakersville, NC in 1942. Soon after graduating high school, she went to work for an ordnance company in Kingsport, TN supporting the war effort until the end of World War II.
After the end of the war, Beulah worked several jobs that would keep her near her home and her parents. In 1949, she decided to attend King’s Business College in Charlotte, NC. She was hired by the Department of the Navy in 1951 and moved by herself to Washington DC. In the late 1950s, Beulah met her future husband, William Embrey Walton. They were married in October of 1959 and she moved to Fort Worth, TX. They had two children Emily and Paul. The family attended Travis Ave Baptist Church where her husband was a long time member.

Beulah continued working for the Federal Government in Fort Worth and eventually started working at General Services Administration. She retired from her position with GSA in 1987. She started working for Colonial Cafeterias as a server in 1977 and continued into the 1990s, when she fully retired.
Beulah was a caring and loving mother who did everything she could to promote her children. Her hard work helped to put Emily and Paul through college. When her first grandchild Lauren arrived, Beulah proved to be an even more caring and loving grandmother. Her four grandchildren were the world to her. In her later years she had two four legged companions that provided her with a lot of company. Beulah remained living in her own home until 2017. She spent her final years at the Mirabella Assisted Living Facility in Fort Worth.
Beulah is survived by her daughter, Emily and her husband, Brad Minnich; her son, Paul and his wife Susan Walton; her grandchildren: Dr. Lauren and her husband Dr. Matthew Evans; Rachel and her husband Trent McGee; Wyatt Walton; Laramie Walton; her great grandchildren: Alewen Evans; Ellery Evans; Elizabeth Mc Gee; her brother Fred Woody; and her sister Betty Buchanan. Donations can be made in lieu of flowers to the Alzheimer’s Association or the Humane Society of North Texas. She will be buried at St. Olaf Kirke Cemetery, near Cranfills Gap, TX.