Paul W. Walden, 78, died Feb. 19, 2010, at Crossgates River Oaks Hospital in Brandon. He was born in Tupelo in 1931. He was a Navy veteran of the Korean conflict, serving from 1950 to 1954. He then graduated Mississippi State University. He was a medical technician/laboratory supervisor at the VA Medical Center for 40 years and retired in 1995. Brother Walden was the minister of Morton Church of Christ and for the past 45 years served churches in Vicksburg, Hazlehurst, Utica, Monticello and Tennean Road church of Christ. He has been involved in mission work in Cuba and Jamaica for the past 20 years. His funeral was at the Brandon church of Christ and burial was in the Verona City Cemetery in Verona, MS.