Carmen Kolb Walker Nix's Obituary
Carmen Walker Nix, 81, devoted Christian, wife, mother and friend, went to be with our Lord April 20, 2019. A Celebration of Life Memorial Service will be held Saturday, April 27 at 11 a.m. in Truett Chapel at First Baptist Church of Dallas.Carmen was born January 18, 1938, in Grapeland, TX. She grew up in Arlington and graduated from Arlington High School in 1956. She attended Baylor University in Waco, where she met Larry Walker, her husband of 57 years. Carmen and Larry traveled the world on mission trips, Carmen by his side or at home raising the kids during their forty years of ministry. As pastor and wife, Larry and Carmen raised their four children in New York and New Jersey until they moved to Texas to join the evangelistic outreach team of First Baptist Church Dallas. Carmen served on the FBC church staff. After Larry’s death in 2014, Carmen was named President of VisionWalk International Ministries Inc., and carried on her love of missions until her own homegoing.Carmen married Dr. William E. Nix in February 2016 and continued her active church life together with Bill. After 40 years in the Sanctuary Choir, she sang with the Celebration Singers and drafted Bill to join her for at least one year. Bill was unable to continue because of his work with the Electronic Bible Society and its development of a digital library. Under her guidance this project was drawn into VisionWalk Internatonal Ministries, Inc. as an ongoing extension of their previous endeavors.Throughout Carmen’s life she was admired and loved by everyone who knew her. She shared her talents as church choir member, played piano and violin for many church programs and Sunday school over the years. Carmen’s unbounded love was based on her life-long deep spiritual faith, which she shared with everyone in word and deed. She gave tirelessly, volunteered generously, and loved unceasingly.She will be deeply missed by her family and many friends. We are comforted in the blessed assurance that she is with our Lord and Savior. She is survived by her loving husband William E. Nix; son Victor L. Walker, grandchildren Kendall and Brock; son Van M. Walker, wife Carolyn and grandchildren Kolby and Bethany; daughter Devonna Walker Holland, husband Michael and grandson Keillor; son Wm. Kevin Walker. She was preceded in death by her husband Larry Walker, brother Bill Kolb, and parents William Boyce Kolb and Mabel Morrison Kolb. In lieu of flowers, please offer memorials to VisionWalk International Ministries, Inc., or “Generation Now” at First Baptist Dallas.Funeral arrangements for Carmen Walker Nix have been faithfully entrusted to Restland Funeral Home and Cemetery, which is located at 13005 Greenville Ave., at the intersection of Restland Road, Dallas, Texas 75243, and can be reached at (972) 238-7111.
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