Donald Dean Walker
June 17, 1935 - November 30, 2020
Finally and forever reunited with the love of his life, Shirley, Don peacefully departed from us with a full life and a full heart. After graduating from The University of Tulsa in 1958, with a degree in Petroleum Engineering, he married his Sand Springs High School sweetheart, Shirley Marie Strout. They first met as children, then dated throughout high school. Don was the only son of Fredrich Floyd Walker and Bethel Okla Walker (nee Clugston).
In 1959, he and Shirley moved to Venezuela and then to Tripoli, Libya in 1968 with their two young sons, where he worked in oilfield services. After several years in Tripoli, he and three of his friends started their own oil field service company, Superior Services. In 1980, he retired from the petroleum world and moved his family back to Tulsa where he owned and operated several self-serve car washes in the Tulsa area. He devoted the rest of his life to his family and international philanthropy.
Don was one of the first members of the Sunrise Rotary Club, in Tulsa. He and Shirley made many trips with Rotary to help eradicate polio around the world. Don and fellow Rotarians also worked on two other key projects: One was to fit children with recycled/donated eyeglasses; the other was to correct cleft palates in the Rotarian effort known as "Rotaplast". For both projects, Don spent much of his time in his adoptive country of Chile.

Don served, not only as President of his own Rotary club, but as the 1995-1996 District Governor of Rotary District 6110, serving 4000 Rotarians across four states. He proudly bragged to anyone that would listen, that his 1994 Chevy Blazer took 400K miles as he visited each and every club within 6110!
He was himself a Paul Harris Fellow and was proud to also make that claim of all 9 of his grandchildren, his favorite fellowship being his granddaughter Kathryn, whom he proudly made a fellow while she was still in the womb! His darling Shirley served as President of the Rotary Ann's, even before women were admitted into Rotary International! Don traveled the world extensively in his 85 years, visiting over 110 countries and all seven continents.

He leaves behind a sister, Fern Mundy of Tulsa, OK; son Mitch of Carrollton, Texas; son Keith and daughter-in-law Kelly of Broken Arrow; and 9 of his most favorite people, his grandchildren, Alexander of Tulsa; Jude of Brooklyn, NY; Jackson of Broken Arrow; Major of Kansas City, MO; Kathryn of Broken Arrow; Mallory of Carrollton, TX; Hudson of Carrollton, TX; Elizabeth of Broken Arrow; and Lorena of Carrolton, TX; and literally thousands of Rotarian friends throughout the world. Don and Shirley were members of Memorial Baptist Church in Tulsa Oklahoma.
The Walker family encourages the support of local florists, especially during 2020, and would happily welcome any arrangements to our home in Broken Arrow or directly to the funeral home for Thursday's viewing. As an alternative, Don would have loved and welcomed donations to the Sunrise Rotary Club in Don's name to be utilized toward the worldwide fight against Polio, or to help establish the
DONALD WALKER EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP. Checks can be made payable to
Sunrise Rotary Foundation
PO Box 701391
Tulsa OK 74170
In Memorial Don Walker