Naomi (Walker) Milby

Naomi Walker Milby, of Magnolia, passed away on Tuesday, July 21, 2026, on her 100th birthday at Tender Touch Senior Living in Elizabethtown.

She accepted Christ at age 15, on August 14, 1941, at Brush Creek Baptist Church, was a member of Athertonville Baptist Church and a homemaker.

Naomi was preceded in death by her husband, Rev. Noble Milby; a son, Sendal Milby; her parents, Rev. Homer Otis and Lula Mae Stearman Walker; five sisters, Beulah Estes, Geneva Estes, Lentha Estes, Christine Creason and Zola Mae Fussell and three brothers, Eugene Walker, Junior Walker and James Harvey Walker.

She is survived by two daughters, Anita (Timothy) Geary of Leitchfield and Angela (Mike) Payton of Magnolia; two sons, Larry (Violet) Milby of Florida and Rev. Silas (Marria) Milby of Louisville; a daughter-in-law, Linda Milby of Buffalo; six grandchildren, Larry Milby II, Dwayne Allen, Melanie Bruce, Damon Milby, Katrina Branco and David Walters; four sisters, Lula Bell Bennett, Violet Druen and Ardithan Cooper, all of Hodgenville; a brother, Marion Walker of Summersville; six great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. (ET) Friday, July 24, at Dixon-Rogers Funeral Home in Magnolia with Bro. Shannon McCubbins officiating.  Burial will follow in Mt. Tabor Church Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. (ET) Thursday and after 9 a.m. (ET) Friday at the funeral home.

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