Mrs. Barbara "Bunny" Walters Coombs Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Barbara “Bunny” Walters Coombs, 80, of Valdosta, formerly of Albany, died January 1, 2019. Her funeral service will be at 11 AM on Saturday, January 5, 2019 at Crown Hill Cemetery. Barbara Susan Dechman born April 17, 1938 in Columbia SC, nicknamed Bunny as she was born on Easter Sunday. She was the last of 4 girls in the family of 5. Her parents were Thomas Alexander Dechman Sr. and Mary Richard Averitt. She graduated High School in Atlanta at Grady High School in 1956 and went to Emory University in the fall of 1956 where she met Gus Walters and they were married November 1956. Bunny and Gus lived the first 10 years of the marriage in Scottsdale Ar. before moving to Albany Ga. until Gus’s passing in 1986. She and Gus had 3 children: Gus Walters III, Tori Walters & Kristine Walters Parsons. She remarried and is survived by her current husband of 28 years John S. Coombs. She is also survived by all 3 of her children, 11 grandchildren, 6 great grandchildren, and her sister Carole Dechman Fullington. She was an active member of Covenant Presbyterian church. A Host / sponsor of the Nike High School girl’s civic club for over 10 years. She had a personnel Agency for 5 years in Albany - She worked for the American Heart Association for over 30 years in the state of Georgia. She ran for the State Senate in 1987. She was a Daughter of the American Revolution - DAR. She was an avid reader and worked at Barnes and Nobles for several years before retiring, and was a huge genealogy buff working at it passionately for 25 years and loved connecting families.

Mrs. Barbara "Bunny" Walters Coombs

April 17, 1938 - January 1, 2019