Paul Pulliam Walls

PAUL PULLIAM WALLS
1922 ~ 2010

Paul Pulliam “Mike” Walls, a resident of the Laconia Community, retired U.S. Army military person and husband of the late Alberta Payne Walls, died at 7:41 P.M. Friday, July 23, 2010, at his residence.  He was 88 years of age.

Funeral services for Mr. Walls were conducted at 12 Noon, Tuesday, July 28th at the Peebles West Funeral Chapel in Oakland with Rev. Jim Whitley, pastor of the Liberty Baptist Church, officiating.  Personal remarks were given by a family friend, Earl Dowdy. Interment, with full military honors, followed in the National Cemetery in Memphis. Arrangements were provided by Peebles Fayette County Funeral Home – West Chapel of Oakland.

Mr. Walls was born March 12, 1922, in the Laconia Community of Fayette County, the son of the late Jack Walls and the late Nannie Belle Pulliam Walls.  He was educated in the public school system of Fayette County and was married in February of 1951 to the former Alberta Payne, who preceded him in death on May 12, 1989.

Mr. Walls served in the United States army for over twenty-one years before his retirement in 1966.  He was a resident of Memphis for a number of years after his military retirement and was a teacher in the ROTC program in the Shelby County public school system.  Mr. Walls returned to the Laconia community after his retirement from teaching fifteen years ago and in later years, attended the Mt. Carmel Cumberland Presbyterian Church.  Active in community and fraternal affairs throughout his life, Mr. Walls was a Mason, Shriner, member of the local Moose Lodge and the local chapter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.  He was proud of the fact he served in the Civilian Conservation Corps as a young person and was a crew member of that organization when the Arches National Monument in Moab, Utah was constructed.  Mr. Walls is survived by his daughter, Sandra Henderson (John) of Laconia; his son, Michael “Bull” Walls (Veronica) of Clarksville,TN; four sisters, his twin sister, Pauline Nix of Laconia, Janie Deckelman of Laconia, Bobbie Moore and Alice Ferguson, both of Southaven, MS; two brothers, Herbert Walls and Teddy Walls, both of Laconia; three grandchildren, Cresta Hindman (Jeremy), Christopher Ogden (Amber), Marc Walls (Petra) and six great-grandchildren, Jaxon, Mason and  Dawson Hindman, Ayden Ogden, Jordan and Kendall Walls.

Active and honorary casketbearers were family members and friends and the family requests that memorials be directed to the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.