Mrs. Marguerite Walker , age 77, departed this life and entered into celestial peace on Tuesday, June 29, 2021 while at Hospice of Dayton located in Dayton, Ohio.

A Graveside Service of Remembrance in her honor will be held at 11:00a.m. on Monday,  July 12, 2021 at the Burgaw Cemetery - 200 East Wallace Street Burgaw, NC. Interment will immediately follow.

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Marguerite also known as Margaret Tyler Walker, the daughter of Naomi and Dr. Joseph Tyler was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. At age eleven, she accepted Christ as her savior and was baptized at Concord Baptist Church by the Rev. Dr. Gardner C. Taylor, a friend and mentor.

Marguerite graduated from the renowned Erasmus Hall High School and attended Hunter College in New York. She transferred to North Carolina Central University graduating with a double major in Sociology and Psychology, and a double minor Spanish and Dance. It was at NCCU where she met the love of her life for 53 years Leon Walker.

After graduating she was employed by the State of Georgia as the first Social Worker at the Georgia Training School in Augusta Ga, a facility for adjugated delinquent girls. She returned to New York enrolling in Columbia University School Social Work while simultaneously employed as a Social Worker for Foster Care and Adoption for the City of New York Bureau of Child Welfare. Upon moving to Dayton Ohio in 1968 she was employed by the United Way, and Montgomery County Children Services where she was a Supervisor and District Manager. She was an adjunct professor at Wilberforce University and the University of Dayton where she also served as Assistant Director of Minority Affairs. In 2009, after 38 years of service, she retired as the Dayton Regional Director of the Ohio Civil Rights Commission.

She was politically active at an early age: assisting with the Montgomery Alabama Bus Boycott; collecting money, shoes, and clothes for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the American Indian Movement, and participated in Harry Bellefonte's Youth March for Integration, and the 1963 March On Washington under Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. She was a former member of the Urban League Guild, Nation Urban League's Executive Exchange Program, National Council of Negro Women, Buckeye Girl Scouts, Women In Leadership, Blacks in Government, Wight Patterson Air Force Base Civic Leader and a Charter member and National officer of the Dayton Chapter of the National Association of Black Social Workers, she was a Life Member NAACP, Dayton Unit and an active member of the Dayton Chapter, Beta Eta Omega of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., Dayton Chapter of the Links, Inc.; Twentig Inc. and Tabernacle Baptist Church.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Leon, her father Dr. Joseph Tyler, mother Naomi Tyler, adopted brother Ernest "Skipper" Wilson, maternal grandparents Molly and Ed Hand, paternal grandparent Marjorie Tyler and many beloved aunts, uncles and cousins.

She will be remembered by her son, Derek; "Special" Son Charles Scandrick, her Brothers and Sisters in-laws and their extended families; her "Special Sisters" Janis Bryant Hayes, Linda Eby White, Vurniece Jackson and Denise Berryman Lennon and many dozens of sister friends from Beta Eta Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., the Dayton Chapters of the Links and Twentig organizations.

She embraced the teaching of the Gospel. She loved Ephesians 6: 10-17 – The Armor of God. She dedicated her life to enhancing the lives of others as a servant leader in education, social service and professional organizations. Marguerite wanted the world to know that she lived a wonderful life, filled with Love, Joy, laughter and God's Blessings.