Remembering Marie Scanlan Walker

Age 99, Louisiana
Passed away on April 9, 2020

She was born Virginia Marie Scanlan on July 30, 1920 in the Iota/Egan area. After moving to Crowley, she was an administrative assistant for a local gas company for a short time then went to work for the Acadia Parish Vocational Technical School.

Marie was a loving mother, sister, daughter, aunt, grandmother, great grandmother and friend to everyone she met. She always put others above herself and will be remembered as a shining light and a wonderful, loving soul with a strong and abiding faith. Her volunteering over the years is too numerous to mention. She never drew attention to herself, was never boastful or sought recognition. She was always the quiet angel in the background.

"Her family meant everything to her. She was so proud of her children and grandchildren. She came from a large close-knit family who never needed a reason to get together and cook and party. It makes it all the more sad that her family could not be by her side for the last week of her life. We are grateful for the doctors and nurses who cared for her in her last days and were there so see her take her last breath.”

She is survived by her son Craig Henry and his wife Barbara; nine grandchildren, Erik Henry and his wife Jaquelin, Army 1st Lt. Megan Henry, Craig Henry II and his wife Tammy, Shane Henry, John Henry and his wife Anita, Jake George and his wife Catherine, Michael George and his wife Michelle, Curtis George and his wife Holly, and Carl W. “Dusty” Dischler, II and his wife Emily; thirteen great-grandchildren, Hunter, Faith, Amanda, Cole, Liam, Zane and Violet Henry; and Garrett, Connor, Jacob, Ian, Caleb and Elizabeth George; and one son-in-law, Carl Dischler.

Marie was preceded in death by her daughter, Sandra Dischler; husbands, David Henry, Richard Taylor, and Cecil “Red” Walker, her parents, Frank Scanlan and Elizabeth Thibodeaux Scanlan; and ten siblings, Saul, Frank, Earl, Stanley, Michael “M.C.,” Arthur “A.G.,” Jimmy Scanlan, Viola Andrus, Gladys Nevill, and Elizabeth “Lessie” Matte.

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