Patricia Y. Walkup

FORT MEADE - Patricia Y. Walkup, 80, died peacefully on January 19, 2013 following a brief struggle with cancer. She was born Patricia Marie Peacocke on February 9, 1932 in Evanston, IL to father Vereker Tufnell John Peacocke and mother Mary Catherine Packham. After Vereker's passing, Mary Catherine married Bernard Yoepp and together, they raised Patricia from a young age. Mrs. Walkup was a retired bank manager for Union Planter Bank, and she moved to Fort Meade from Memphis, TN in 1998. She attended Huntington College in Montgomery, AL, was a member of Christ Episcopal Church in Fort Meade, FL and loved to travel and cruise with her husband Ed. Mrs. Walkup was preceded in death by her husband Edgar (Edward) Louis Walkup on Dec. 10, 2011. She is survived by her children, Gary Lyle Walkup & wife Linda, Carbondale, IL, James Barton McGee and wife Alicia, Superior, CO, Leslie Ann Walkup Ramsey , and Wendy Lynn Walkup Miller of Nashville, TN; grandchildren, Steven and Katie Walkup, Lauren and Emily McGee, Timmy and Trisha Ramsey, and Jeff and Stacey Miller. Memorial services will be held 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, January 23, 2013 at the Christ Episcopal Church, Fort Meade. Hancock Funeral Home, Fort Meade. 863-285-8171