The funeral service will be held at 1:00 P.M., Saturday, June 16, 2007 at Friendship Baptist Church, Cotton Avenue, Americus, Georgia. Interment will follow in Lebanon Cemetery, Grangerville Community, Ideal, Georgia.
Agnes was born January 21, 1962 in Macon County, Georgia to Willie Faye Raines and the late Freddy Lee Raines. She was a 1980 graduate of Macon County High School of Montezuma, Georgia. Her demand in her future became very vivid to her. In 1984, she graduated from South Georgia Technical College with a degree as a Licensed Practitioner Nurse. In 1993, she acquired her degree as a registered nurse from Georgia Southwestern University of Americus, Georgia. She was the recipient of 10, 15 and 18 years awards for her professional and dedicated services rendered to the Sumter Regional Hospital. On June 11, 1993 she received the Outstanding Clinical Performance Award from Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital of Albany, Georgia. After 20 dedicated years of service in the field of medicine, she retired from the Sumter Regional Hospital with many awards and recognitions honoring her services as a Registered Nurse. She was preceded in death by one brother, Robert Nathan Raines. She was a member of Travelers Rest Home Baptist Church of Ideal, Georgia and a regular attendant of Friendship Baptist Church of Americus, Georgia.
Survivors include her husband, James Evans Walker, Sr., Americus, Georgia; children, Jameah Sharney Walker and James Evans Walker, Jr., both of Americus, Georgia; mother, Wilie Faye Raines, Ideal, Georgia; siblings, Rosa Mae Jones (John Thomas), Roberta, Georgia, Annie Joe Phillips, Americus, Georgia, Ilene Raines and Elouise Raines, both of Ideal, Georgia; father-in-law/mother-in-law, James Walker (Rena), Americus, Georgia; brother-in-law and sisters-in-law, Craig Walker, Carolyn Jordan and Jacqueline Walker, all of Americus, Georgia; aunts and uncles, Minnie Reeves, Americus, Georgia, Nancy Bivins, Bennie Raines, Montezuma, Georgia, Willie Lee Raines, Mauk, Georgia, Juliette Raines, Ideal, Georgia, Joyce Raines, Ellaville, Georgia, Romeo Harris (Lonnie Mae), Anno Harris (Betty), Ike Harris (Velma), Woodrow Harris, Berdia White (Otis), Vergirie King, all of Americus, Georgia, Delores Baldwin, Dorothy Owens, both of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania and Bessie Raines, Oglethorpe, Georgia; a host of beloved nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.