Where is Sam and Helen Walton buried?

Helen Walton was buried in a private ceremony next to her husband Sam in Bentonville Cemetery, which is next to Wal-Mart’s headquarters. Sam Walton died in 1992 at the age of 74.

Sam Walton married Helen in her hometown of Claremore, Oklahoma, on Valentine’s Day 1943, after spending a year of active duty in the Army.

According to Sam Walton’s book “Sam Walton: Made in America,” on an April night in a bowling alley in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he observed Helen Robson his future bride who happened to be on a date with another fellow.

Helen and Sam both stated that they fell in love right away. Helen, according to Sam, was “beautiful and brilliant and educated, ambitious and opinionated and strong-willed with her ideas and goals.”

Sam and Helen Walton started their first retail store, a Ben Franklin “five and dime,” in Newport, Arkansas, in September 1945. They relocated to Bentonville, Arkansas, in 1950, and founded the first Wal-Mart in 1962.

When Sam Walton died in 1992, Helen and their four children inherited Wal-Mart.