Pamela Sue Walker

It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of our dear mother, Pamela Sue Walker, on January 29, 2024 from heart complications. Pam was born October 24, 1954 in Salt Lake City, Utah to William Nelson Walker and Charlotte Ruth Tarver. In her youth, Pam was a girl scout, Job’s Daughter, and cared for numerous pets. While attending Granger High School (class of 1973), Pam enjoyed basketball, volleyball, and singing in the chorus. She was also a talented seamstress and an outstanding competitive debater. She graduated from the University of Utah School of Nursing and the Army ROTC program in 1977. As a member of the women’s basketball team at U of U, she greatly enjoyed the benefits of Title IX and was a proud supporter of women’s rights. While serving in the Army, she was stationed at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Denver, Landstuhl Germany during Desert Storm, and finally William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso where she retired at the rank of Major. Upon retirement from the military, she settled in El Paso, Texas to start a family and work at William Beaumont, Thomason Hospital/University Medical Center, and most recently, Providence Hospital. At her passing, she still enjoyed working as an accomplished registered nurse and was a member of the local nurses’ union. During those 47 years, she mostly sought assignments in neonatal intensive care units (NICU) but for a time was a pediatric transport nurse here in El Paso. Known for her superior intravenous skills, biting sarcasm, love of jokes, and most of all, her unlimited capacity to love, Mom spent as much time as possible caring for humans and animals alike. She is preceded in death by her parents and older brother Bill. She is survived by her children: Kaelin Li, Samantha Amaris, William Richard, and Charlotte Jessamine; her younger sister Patricia Rechard (Rob) of Albuquerque, nephew Kyle Rechard, and nieces Kara (Rechard) Shackelford and Karen (Walker) Hefflefinger. Her last few years were spent caring for numerous foster cats through the El Paso organization Sun City Cats. Memorials can be made in her memory to Sun City Cats, Girls Scouts of the USA, Women’s SRO & Transitional Living Center at 1318 Myrtle Ave. A celebration of life will take place June 8, 2024 at 2 pm at Martin Funeral Home East, 1460 George Dieter, El Paso, TX.