Newly Placed Infusaport Care & Instructions. Do not drink alcohol, drive a car, or operate machinery for 24 hours. Take your regular medicines as usual. Dressing changes/wound care: Remove the dressing in 48 hours. The steri-strips underneath the dressing will remain intact and should fall off in about 2-3. weeks.
Madam Walker died on May 25, 1919 at 51 years old of kidney failure and other complications due to hypertension at Villa Lewaro, her Irvington-on-Hudson, New York estate. She was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. For an HGTV excellent video about Villa Lewaro, click here.
Various scholarships and awards have been named in Walker's honor: 1  The Madam C. J Walker Business and Community Recognition Awards are sponsored by the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Oakland/Bay Area chapter. 2  Spirit Awards are sponsored the Madame Walker Theatre Center in Indianapolis.