Girl Scouts of Northwest Georgia

Norcross Service Unit

In Remembrance

In Remembrance of Lynette Walker

It is with great sadness that we mourn the loss of our Girl Scout Sister

Lynette Walker.  In her 20+ years as a Girl Scout Leader she served with

great passion, leading generations of  Hopewell Missionary Baptist

Brownies.  Lynette's fiery spirit and dedication will be sorely missed by

both her Hopewell and Norcross SU girl scout families.  Heaven now has one

more Green Angel:

Angel in Green

  Having left mortal earth I passed through Heaven's gate

  And while anxiously awaiting the outcome of my fate

  I walked among the angels all robed in purest white

  Whereupon I saw one figure that cast a greenish light.

  She sat upon a misty cloud, a harp held to her breast,

  In a flowing, blowing gown of green, unlike all the rest;

  I asked what great deed she'd done to earn the special hue

  That gave her color where others had none, or maybe just a few.

  She said, "On earth I sought no fame, fortune was not my goal

  I shunned the power of politics and worked without a toll;

  I spent time with children, helping them to grow

  For as you reap in life, so must you learn to sow."

  "You see," she said, "the dividend while growing up I'd share

  I repaid where many others were too self-involved to care;

  Girl Scouting was my choice of roads to follow in my quest

  For among the girls I found a love deeper than the rest."

  "A teacher was I, my work was hard, I had no diploma or pay

  But where family and institutions failed I helped them find the way;

  The lessons I taught were obscure and difficult to see

  For they didn't have names like spelling or math or geometry."

  "They were lessons in life delivered through guided experience

  And they taught such things as character, spirit, and confidence;

  Though on earth my life was blessed, it's even moreso today

  For when I look down I see my work as my girls show others the way."

  "On earth, Girl Scouting taught me to leave things better than before

  And the same applies to that mortal place where life never was a bore

  Now having lived by that Girl Scout rule in every earthly endeavor

  I have become an Angel in Green and shall be a Girl Scout forever."