Cherokee County Obituaries

Walsie Burnell Nodine

©2024 Tahlequah Daily Press
July 09, 2012
Submitted by: Sabrina Hitchcock

Services for Walsie Burnell Nodine will be held at 10 a.m., Tuesday, July 10, 2012, at the Calvary Assembly of God, with Pastor Brandon Stratton officiating.

Visitation will be held from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday July 9, at Reed-Culver Chapel. Interment will follow at Tahlequah City Cemetery. Services have been entrusted to Reed-Culver Funeral Home of Tahlequah.

Pallbearers for Walsie include her nephews, Larry Vaught and Kim Vaught; and great-nephews Jerad Vaught, Josh Vaught and Zachary Roach.

Walsie Burnell Nodine was born on Sept. 29, 1920 in Eureka, the daughter of John D. and Pearl (Chapman) Cook.

After finishing school, Walsie worked at a variety of jobs, including the garment factory during World War II. It was during the war she met the love of her life, Percy Nodine, and on March 14, 1942, they were joined in holy matrimony in Tahlequah.

Walsie always referred to her and Percy beginning life in 1943 when they were saved and baptized at the same time.

“This is when we began a walk with the Lord,” Walsie would say. It was a walk they both took seriously. They joined the Assemblies of God Church in Tahlequah. Walsie taught Sunday school in a little country church called Wolf Springs, and later as a Sunday school teacher at the Assembly of God in Tahlequah for 35 years of faithful service. She worked tirelessly in Bible school, served as a flower girl, and was a charter member of the Calvary Assembly of God Church.

She also served as the president of the Ladies Home Extension and the Dahlia Club. She worked outside the home, as a cashier/clerk at Anthony's in the Tahlequah area. She enjoyed flower gardening, sewing, crocheting, and reading.

There was always time to travel with Percy to see something they hadn't seen before.

After 66 wonderful years together, Percy went home with the Lord in 2008. Walsie missed him terribly, but enjoyed the company of her family and friends.

Walsie went home to her Lord and savior on July 5, 2012, in Tahlequah, at the age of 91.

Her beautiful smile and sweet personality will be missed by her family and the many friends she had over the years.

Walsie is preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Percy.

Those left to cherish Walsie's memory include her brother, Jimmy Cook of Tahlequah; one sister, Lois Vaught of Inola; niece Janice Vaught, of Inola; nephews Larry Vaught and wife, Charla, of Inola, Kim Vaught, of Inola, Bill Woodall and wife, Sharon, of Corvallis, Ore., Billy Jo Nottingham and wife, Wanda, of Catoosa; and niece Virginia Wheeler and husband, Stu, of Tahlequah; as well as many cousins and a host of friends and loved ones.

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