RELAY: Not even cancer was enough to slow down Lillie Berry Walker

Published 5:25 pm Thursday, May 12, 2016

Lillie Berry Walker was one of the strongest people that I knew.

Although one of the most feared illnesses that exist, cancer, was never enough to stop her from enjoying life.

She still encouraged everyone that she knew and met, she donated to numerous charities, she watched countless hours of HGTV and used some of the ideas at home and TBN. And she continued to shop and to travel whenever possible, even going as far as Virginia during her last four months on earth.

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This was all in spite of enduring three challenging regimens of chemotherapy and two life-threatening surgeries.

Everyone who knew her was well aware of how much she loved her sons, and that there was nothing that she would not give for them.

She touched all of our lives with the gift of knowing that each day is its own blessing, and we should live each day as if it were our last.

 

-Leonard J. Walker