Lorretta Walker, Flag Matriarch, Dies

  

Our beloved mother, flag matriarch, and co-founder of Colonel Walker Flag Company died on June 5, 2013.  It has taken me this long to pass along this information, because it is a very hard thing to write about.  Mother was out in the office with us every day until about six weeks before her death.  She was 88 years old - and had one of the sharpest business and legal minds I have ever known. 

  

I picked this photo of her - one that was in the Courier Journal's Small Business "Snapshot" article a couple of years ago - because it surrounds her with the USA Flag.  Mother loved the flag business!  Many of you may know that our parents started out as Independent Insurance Agents - and the flag business was one of many entrepreneurial endeavors that my father delved into!  They started selling flags in 1960 in their Sporting Goods Store - and this sideline  business stuck.  Mother and Daddy  loved selling flags - as they were both so patriotic, and community and civic minded.  After our father died in 1997 -  any one who thought maybe the flag company wouldn't carry on - were very mistaken.  Mother took charge - bought a Cadillac - put "The Boss" on the front plate - and had a ball running the flag company.    Even after Donna and I took over the management of the company in 2006 -  mother was a very integral part of our daily operations and decisions.   She will be greatly missed.

  

This life changing event brought about the move of the flag company to a new location.  We have been on New LaGrange Road for two weeks now.  Please call us at 502-394-1474 (our old no. 366-6516 also still works!) if you have any

questions, or need directions.  We are still hanging "pictures" - but look forward to your visit to our new place.

  

With much reverence for my mother, and appreciation of her fortitude and skills, I write this note to you today.

  

Sincerely,

  

Dana Walker Butz