Gayle Jean was born in Bellingham, WA. November 27, 1934 to Dale and Gladys (O’Hara) Smith. They moved to Bremerton in 1940 when her father took a job at the Naval Shipyard. She grew up living in Westpark and on South Summit Ave. She attended Coontz Junior and Bremerton High schools. She attended Summit Avenue Presbyterian Church in her younger years and later in life attended Peninsula Bible Fellowship. She was stricken with tuberculosis in the late 1940’s and spent a year and a half in bed at the Port Orchard Sunnyview Sanatorium. She and her life long best friends loved to dance at Perl’s. In 1955 she met and married Arthur “Bud” Walker at Arden Farms Dairy and they raised four boys; Robert, Richard, Michael and Brian. The first place they lived was in the house at the end of the Seabeck Dock then to Bremerton in the middle of Petersville Road then the Lebo area and finally the top of Riddel Road hill. The family went razor clammin’ and smeltin’ while staying in cabins at Kalaloch and spent much time in the family boat exploring and fishing Puget Sound, Hood Canal and Crescent Beach west of Port Angeles. She watched her kids play sports and later her grandkids. She always had an upbeat personality. After retirement around 1990 from Design & Allowance at PSNS she started doing family tree genealogy and created a book about Westpark and the families that lived there during WW2. She became a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was a member of the NRA, and got a motorcycle license. She loved cats and fed local feral cats for several decades. She is survived by her sister Colleen Ringos, two nephews, four sons, seven grandchildren and twelve great grandchildren As far as we know this is the only poem she wrote. In 1950, age 15 while in the TB ward she wrote: “Somewhere a land a world away Where love holds life in cosmic sway Hearts are precious things There’s music there A voice to sing the thoughts my lips would say Your touch is all I need To bring me home to my world away”