Milly Hill Duncan Walden

March 5, 1919 – November 3, 2015

Our beloved Mother, Grandmother, Great-Grandmother and Aunt, who we all called “Momsie” has left us to join her identical twin Martha Jane Duncan Creecy Talley, her brothers E.C. “Dick” Duncan Jr., David William Duncan and her parents Edgar Clayton Duncan Sr. and Ellen Jamimah Chaffin Duncan in heaven and the love of her life for 72 years Charles Ramsey Walden Sr.

She is survived by her son Charles R. Walden Jr. and wife Laura and daughter Judy Walden- Kirschner and husband Rusty, 8 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren, 3 great-great-grandchildren.

Milly was born and raised on the Irish Ridge in Kaufman, Texas where she graduated from Kaufman High School and went on to graduate from St. Paul’s Nursing School in Dallas in 1940. She met her husband Charles in Dallas and they married on November 1, 1941 and moved to Austin in 1942. Milly was an RN at Seton Medical Center and St. David’s Hospital for about 5 decades. During that time in Austin, Milly and Charles became a very important part of the Funeral Industry and formed Cook-Walden Funeral Homes in 1971.

Milly was well known for her love and for helping many people with her wonderful smile and loving ways. She also belonged to the Austin Junior League, Kiwanis Club, and President of the Mental Health for Children, Daughters of the American Republic (DAR), and Knights of the Holy Sepulcher and a member of the St. Monica’s Holy Family Guild for 60 years. She was a member of St. Theresa’s Catholic Church in Austin, Texas.

Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from five o’clock until seven o’clock in the evening, on Thursday, the 5th of November 2015, at Cook-Walden Funeral Home, 6100 North Lamar Boulevard, Austin, Texas. A Rosary will be recited at seven o’clock that evening.

A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at ten o’clock in the morning on Friday, the 6th of November 2015, at St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, 4311 Small Drive, Austin, Texas 78731. Entombment will follow at Cook-Walden Capital Parks, Pflugerville, Texas.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to St. Jude Medical Center and Ronald McDonald House.

Tributes may be made at www.cookwaldenfuneralhome.com.