Marshall Rozelle Walker

Marshall Rozelle Walker, age 82, formerly of Proberta died at his Dairyville home on April 6, 2017 from complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was born on August 8, 1934 in Oroville, CA to parents John H Walker and Margery Giles-Walker. The family moved to the Capay area where he graduated from the Capay Rancho Elementary School. After his parents divorced, he boarded with farm families during his high school years graduating from Orland High School in 1954. He served in the U.S. Army 1955-1956 and then moved to Red Bluff to Apprentice in the sheet metal trade working for White, Davis and Hart and Jack Kunkel Sheet Metal. In 1957 he met Linda Hulseman at the Tehama County Fair. They married in 1959 and two children followed soon after.

Marshall loved growing hay and raising Hereford cattle. In 1966 he purchased registered cattle and continued raising Polled Herefords until his death. He liked raising bulls for commercial cattlemen and marketed them at Famoso, Fallon, Shasta and the Red Bluff Bull Sale. His steer calves often went to 4-H or FFA students and he took care to make sure they got a “good one”.

He was a past president of the Northern-Cal Appaloosa Assoc., past director of Tehama County Farm Supply and Tehama County Cattlemen and a member of the California/Nevada Hereford Assoc.

He is survived by his spouse, Linda, and daughter Laurel Walker of Los Molinos; son Scott and wife Anne Rohere-Walker of Livermore, CA and his adored grandchildren, Jacob, Molly and Kate Walker of Livermore; his sister Janet Gallegos of Gerber and numerous nieces and nephews. He is further survived by his beloved “foster” siblings, Tonya Edwards Porter of Orland and Greta Edwards Ankeny of Nampa, ID and their families. He was preceded in death by siblings Harvey Walker of Roseberg, OR and Norene Gudvangen of Los Molinos.