Myrtis Claire Brignac Walton's Obituary
Myrtis Claire Brignac Walton
August 12, 1928 - February 25, 2020
Myrtis Claire Brignac Walton, age 91, of Fairhope, Alabama earned her angel wings and joined her heavenly Father on February 25, 2020 in Mobile, Alabama surrounded by family.
She was born on August 12, 1928 in Ponchatoula, Louisiana to Michael P. Brignac and Inez (Poche) Brignac. Her father died when she was three years old and she grew up in Hester, Louisiana, on the Mississippi River, with her mother and five siblings. She graduated from Lutcher High School at age sixteen and was valedictorian of her class. She graduated from Charity Hospital School of Nursing in 1948, in the last class of the Army Cadet Corps of Nursing, WWII. She was working as a psychiatric nurse in Ne Orleans when she met a third year medical student from Tulane, named Spencer Walton. After a three month courtship, they married and the honeymooned in the Rocky Mountains. It was the first time she saw mountains. She traveled extensively with Spencer who became an Army Orthopedic Surgeon. The had seven children. The lived in Wyoming, Washington, Arkansas, Texas, California, New York, Panama Canal Zone, and Hawaii. Upon retirement from the Army they moved to New Iberia, Louisiana and Anniston, Alabama and then retired to Fairhope, Alabama in 1983. They sailed several times from Fairhope to the Bahamas and continued to enjoy the mountains on trips to Wyoming and the Devil's River in Texas. After Spencer passed away in 1991, Myrtis continued travelling with her children to Ecuador, the Galapagos Islands, Africa (twice) and Caribbean cruises. Myrtis loved life. She loved mexican and cajun food, bird watching, her land at the Devil's River, sunsets from the pier in Fairhope and mimosas. Fly fishing and hunting for shells at eh beach were two of her favorite things to do. She loved babies and was truly the "baby whisperer". She loved her large family and they adored her.
She was preceded in death by her soulmate Spencer, her parents, three brothers, one sister, one son-in-law and a great grandson. Survivors include her seven children, Martha Walton, Spencer Walton, Jr., Peyton Walton and his wife, Leslie, Bob Walton and his wife, Cathie, Carol Walton, Bill Walton and his wife Ellen, and Annie Walton York and her husband, David. She is also survived by twenty-three grandchildren and twenty-three great grandchildren, numerous nieces and nephews, her sister, Elaine Rebaldo, her sister-in-law, Odile Brignac, and her brother-in-law, Juan Morales.
It is with great joy that we celebrated her life. It is with great sadness that we must let her go. The service was in Archer, FL followed by burial in the Walton family plot, next to her beloved husband, Spencer.
Memorials may be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital or Devils's River Conservancy, 201 W 5th Street, Suite 1300, Austin, TX 78701.
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