Walton Carpenter Elliott

Walton Carpenter Elliott

March 16, 1934 - May 10, 2025

Beloved sister, wife, mother, mother-in-law, grandmother, and great-grandmother, Walton Carpenter "Sister" Elliott passed away on May 10, 2025. Sister was born in Augusta, Georgia, on March 16, 1934, to Lucy Walton Jacks Carpenter and Lawrence Marvin Carpenter. She graduated from the Academy of Richmond County in Augusta, attended Brenau College, and then attended and graduated from the University of Georgia where she was a member of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority. At the University of Georgia, she fell in love with William Gus Elliott of Cuthbert, Georgia.

Following her marriage to Gus in 1955, Sister taught elementary school in Atlanta, Georgia, before moving to Thomasville, Georgia, and eventually to Valdosta, Georgia. After raising her four children, Sister returned to teaching at W. G. Nunn Elementary School. She was a member of First Presbyterian Church, Valdosta, the Valdosta Mystery Club, and the Georgia Chapter of the Colonial Dames.

Sister had a deep faith in God. She believed that after this life she would go home to her heavenly father and those she loved who had gone before her. Sister loved dearly and was a steadfast supporter of her husband Gus and all her family. She also enjoyed many friends, including her Valdosta annual beach trip group, her August girls' trip friends, and those with whom she and Gus traveled often to the Georgia and North Carolina mountains. Sister was especially known to many for her wit and humor. She will be missed beyond measure.

She was predeceased by her husband William Gus Elliott and her brother James Martin Fraser, Jr. She is survived by her children Walter Gus (Laura) Elliott, II, James Lawrence (Susan) Elliott, William Walton (Kelly) Elliott, and Lucy Walton Elliott (Stephen) Enniss, grandchildren William

Gus (Gretchen) Elliott II, John Hartshorn (Anna) Elliott, Eliza Elliott (Speight) Carr, Thomas Gus Elliott, Alexander Callaway Elliott, Lawrence Carter Elliott, Jensen Marguerite Elliott, Harris Pinckney Enniss, and Rebecca Claire Enniss, and great-grandchildren Mary Jean Elliott and Ruth Justice Elliott. She is also survived by her brother Lawrence Marvin Carpenter, his wife Margelyn Carpenter, and their daughters L. Elizabeth Carpenter and Catherine Carpenter.

Gifts in her memory can be directed to the Break Bread Together program of First Presbyterian Church, PO Box 1094, Valdosta, GA 31603.