Hilda Alford Walker biography: 14 things about Beaumont, Texas woman

Who was Hilda Walker?

Hilda Mae Alford Walker was an American woman who lived in Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas, United States most of her life. She was a member of the First Church of God and a homemaker.

Born in DeRidder, Beauregard Parish, Louisiana, USA to Clarence Vivian Alford and Laura Lee Carter Alford, Walker was 7 years younger than her brother Felton Herbert Alford, 2 years younger than her sister Hazel Lee Alford, 4 years older than her brother Charles Haskell Alford, 6 years older than her brother Hoy Ernest Alford and 8 years older than her sister Nola Rae Alford. Felton married Mouriel Taweel Alford and Hazel married Hayward Olin Stodghill.

Walker was 1 month younger than her husband Dally Elzie Walker. Their daughter Dana Walker Gabriel married Remigio Bonson “Bon” Gabriel of Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines.

Hilda enjoyed reading and singing. Here are 14 more things about her:

1. On September 7, 2926, her grandmother Sarah Matilda Collier Alford died in Gatesville, Coryell County, Texas at age 64.
2. On October 12, 1929, her father died in San Augustine, Texas at age 40.
3. On July 27, 1940, her grandmother Della Mary Russell Carter died in Beaumont at age 75.
4. On November 11, 1942, she married Dally.
5. On March 1, 1945, she gave birth to Stephen Ray Walker.
6. On February 14, 1946, her sister Nola married Douglas P. Anger in Anderson, Madison, Indiana, USA.
7. In May 1948, she gave birth to Jeannene Ball.
8. In August 1953, she gave birth to Dana.
9. On December 3, 1963, her mother died in Beaumont at age 70.
10. On August 26, 1979, her sister Nola died in Houston, Texas at age 51.
11. On March 20, 1994, her daughter Dana gave birth to R’Bonney Nola Gabriel in Houston.
12. On August 29, 2001, her sister Hazel died at age 82.
13. On October 12, 2005, her brother Felton died at age 91.
14. On March 4, 2009, she turned 88 then died in Beaumont.

Representing Friendswood, Texas, R’Bonney won Miss Texas USA 2022 on July 2, 2022 at Hilton Houston Post Oak Hotel in Houston. Representing Texas, she won Miss USA 2022 at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada, USA on October 3, 2022.

Representing the U.S., R’Bonney won Miss Universe 2022 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA on January 14, 2023. She crowned her successor Miss Universe 2023 Sheynnis Palacios at the Gimnasio Nacional José Adolfo Pineda in San Salvador, El Salvador on November 18, 2023.