Emma Mae Craven, a beautiful baby girl was born to Olzie Craven, Sr. and Irene Williams on October 23, 1934 in Foreman, Arkansas.

She was raised by John and Pearl Craven in Porter, Oklahoma.

She attended Rock Hill Elementary School until the eighth grade, then onto Carter G. Woodson High School in Tullahassee, Oklahoma where she graduated with the class of 1953.

She then attended Langston University in Langston, Oklahoma for two years.

She met and married John Adam Walters, Sr. in 1961. To this union, seven children were born.

She worked in the school system doing one of things she loved to do most, and that was cook and she was excellent at it.

She loved cooking, gardening and most of all, studying her Bible.

She worked 29 years at Carter G. Woodson School as a cook until the closing and consolidation in 1990 with Porter School where she worked 7 more years until her retirement in 1997.

She was faithful to her community where she was the clerk for the town of Tullahassee for 36 years and also served as Mayor for 2 years.

She was baptized and united with Mt. Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in Porter, Oklahoma in 1946 where she remained a faithful member until her health started to decline.

She is preceded in death by her father, Olzie (Little Son) Craven, Sr., her mother, Irene Williams, her uncle and aunts, John and Pearl Craven, her youngest son, David Russell Walters (Pamela Walters) and 3 grandsons, Damione Lawone Walters, Patrick Terrell Walters, Andrew Jackson Parker III, 2 brothers, Carl Craven and J.B. Craven and 1 sister, Helen Graves.

She leaves to mourn her children, Denise Darcel Walters, Jonnita Walters, Tina (Johnny) Gibbs and Marcus (Teshonna) Walters, all of Wagoner, OK; Renet Rochelle Walters and Tracey Lynn Walters, both of Tulsa, OK; her brother and sisters, Olzie "Sank" (Mildred) Craven, Ray Eugene Craven, Deborah Craven-Moss and Caroline Vann, 13 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren, a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and also a long time best friend, Barbara Ann Moore.

A Home Going Celebration is scheduled, Saturday, May 12, 2018, 11:00 a.m., Mt. Bethel Baptist Church, 9011 N. 60 ^th St. West, Porter, OK; Rev. Henry McVay, Jr., eulogizing. Interment will follow in Booker T. Washington Cemetery, Muskogee, OK.

Visitation will be Friday, May 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m.

The family has been cared for by House of Winn Funeral Home & Cremations, Muskogee, OK.