12:01 a.m. PT May 2, 2007
A visitation will be held between 9 and 11 a.m. on Friday, May 4, at Hooper and Weaver Mortuary in Nevada City for Hazel Louise Faulkner Walling. A graveside service will follow at 11 a.m at Sierra Memorial Lawn. At 12:30 p.m., there will be a memorial service, with a reception following, at the Penn Valley Community Church. Pastor William R. White, Mrs. Walling's great-grandson, will officiate. Mrs. Walling passed away with her family by her side April 28 in Auburn. She was 92.

Mrs. Walling was born Aug. 30, 1914, to Jefferson Wilce Faulkner and Nora Alice Lucas Faulkner in Tennessee. She completed the 11th grade at White Sand School in Bryan County, Okla.

On Nov. 22, 1932, she married Bob Walling in Darwin, Okla. Mrs. Walling was a homemaker and ranch hand with her husband on their cattle ranch in Missouri.

She moved from Lebanon, Mo., to California in 1993. In Nevada County, Mrs. Walling attended the Lutz Adult Day Services where she looked on the staff and her fellow participants as her second family.

She was a member of the Eastern Star in Morris, Okla., the Home Demonstration Club in Henryetta, Okla., and the Church of Christ in Grass Valley. In her free time, she enjoyed hunting, fishing, crocheting and gardening.

Mrs. Walling is survived by her brother and sister-in-law, Melvin and Marie Faulkner of Wanette, Okla.; daughters and sons-in-law, Carolyn Walling Wallace and Bob Wallace of Olathe, Colo. and Charlene Walling White and Ray White of Penn Valley; grandchildren, Robert Wallace and wife, Dianne, of Beaverton, Ore., Carol Ann and husband, Bill Zick, of Sahuarita, Ariz., Bob White and wife, Maryann of Woodlake, Don White of Grass Valley, Ron White and wife, Marjan of Redding and Glenn White of Vacaville; six great-grandchildren, six great-great-grandchildren; and numerous cousins, nieces and nephews in Oklahoma, Missouri, Texas, Tennessee, Washington and Indiana. She was preceded in death by her mother and father, husband of 63 years, Bob Walling, in 1996; brothers, Earl, Elra, Kile, Fred, J.W. and Frank Faulkner.

Mrs. Walling was a very caring and loving person and was known for her beautiful eyes and smile. She loved her family, God and babies.

Memorial contributions can be made to your favorite charity or to Lutz Adult Day Services, 138 New Mohawk Road, Suite B-1, Nevada City, 95959.

Arrangements are under the direction of Hooper and Weaver Mortuary.

Submitted by Carolyn Walling Wallace