Ola Bernice Walters, 95, died on Sunday, March 2, 2025.
Services will be privately held, with burial in Union Cemetery in Panama.
Mrs. Walters was born to Willard and Laura Fuller on Nov. 29, 1929, and had been a lifelong resident of Hillsboro, until she moved to Burgess Square Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Westmont in 2022.
She married Frank Adam Walters on May 5, 1952, raised three children, and worked as an executive assistant at Hurst-Roche in Hillsboro for many years.
Her most impactful role was that of consummate caretaker to her husband while he suffered from Parkinson’s disease, and to both her brother, Willard, and her mother in their later years. She championed frugality, honesty, fairness, intelligent discourse and progressive policies. Mrs. Walters was a relentless enforcer of proper grammar and correct spelling while her passion was solving the most difficult of crossword puzzles. She loved all children and children were naturally drawn to her.
Mrs. Walters is survived by two brothers, Rex (Bonny) Fuller, and Drex (Sue) Fuller; one sister, Virginia Joyce; three children, Janet (Paul) Smietana, Betty (Charles) Faron and David (Pamela) Walters; three grandchildren, Adam (Marcella Melgarejo) Smietana, Emily (Benjamin) Wu and Sarah (Jon Blazek) Smietana; three great-grandchildren, Boaz Earl Wu, Ola Rose Wu and Waylon Walter Blazek; and many extended family and friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Frank; two brothers, Donald Dean Fuller (infant), and Willard Jr. Fuller; and two sisters, Betty Elsmore and Mary Hughes.
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