Donna Jean Walker

Donna Jean “Jeanie” Walker, 90, of Sioux City, died October 28, 2025, at Accura Health Care.

Services will be at 10:00 AM on Monday, November 3, 2025, at Southern Hills Baptist Church, located at 4301 Old Lakeport Road, Sioux City. Reverend Bob Dillman will officiate. Interment will be at Memorial Park in Sioux City. Public Visitation will be from 2:00 – 4:00 PM on November 2, 2025, at Christy-Smith Funeral Home, 1801 Morningside Ave, Sioux City.

Jeanie was born on October 3, 1935, in Springfield, Missouri, located in southcentral Missouri. Her parents owned and operated a country store, feed store, and post office in Huggins, Missouri. She attended a rural grade school in the community; she graduated from Houston High School in Houston, Missouri. She was a member of the high school band, orchestra, and drum corps for four years. She was a member of the high school clarinet quartet that won state honors. Jeanie’s father died when she was 16 years of age; this impacted her future. Her mother was therefore responsible for two farms and the businesses. Jeanie had to assist her mother with everything; they soon sold it all and bought a flower shop and greenhouse in Mountain Grove, Missouri.

Jeanie became a florist to assist her mother; she was delivering flowers when she met her future husband, Bill Walker. Much to her mother’s displeasure, she married Bill on October 15, 1955. Bill was employed at Boeing Aircraft and attending school at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas. Jeanie and Bill lived in Wichita for 7 years. During this period of time, two kids were added to the family – Gary, a son, and Kimberly, a daughter. Today, the family consists of six grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild.

Bill and Jeanie lived in Houston, Missouri, from 1962 to 1965 due to a business adventure. In 1963, Bill accepted employment as a vocational technical instructor, which resulted in Jeanie and the family moving to Sioux City. A new Southern Baptist Church came to the south side of Sioux City, and Bill and Jeanie joined soon thereafter. Jeanie worked in the Morningside area at Flower Land as a florist designer for many years, specializing in weddings. Jeanie grew up in sales and always loved it; someone convinced her to become a family counselor at Memorial Park Inc., and she loved her job—sales and more sales. She loved it so much that Bill could not get her to retire, so he could. She finally joined him, and the latter years of their retirement were spent 6 months in Sioux City and 6 months in southern Texas, all sunshine.