Louise Maxwell Worth was born on October 28, 1919, in South Boston, Virginia. She majored in Christian education at the University of North Carolina in Greensbury and earned a degree in Early Childhood Education from University of North Carolina at Greensbury. At an international conference in North Carolina in 1949, she first met her husband George Clarkson Walls and later married him.

Louise and her husband Walls studied Korean at Yale University for about nine months before being sent as missionaries, and worked hard to develop their language skills even after visiting Korea. In 1954, the couple visited Korea as education missionaries of the Northern Presbyterian U.S.A. and worked in Daegu.

After visiting Korea, Lewis started kindergarten at home with Korean Kim Ha-su. Starting with this, Keimyung University established a kindergarten teacher training and pilot kindergarten, and she trained in London, England, and established Korea's first Montessori kindergarten.

She was responsible for missionary work such as Christian education, human rights equality and reconciliation, peace and justice, English education for refugees, and supporting high-quality residences for low-income families, and taught and trained students for years at Keimyung University.

Louise was in charge of teaching students as an English teacher at Dongsan Christian Hospital's nursing school.

In 1975, she and her husband dropped all 20 years of missionary work and eturned to the U.S. to serve as a member of to serve as a member of Koinonia Partners intentional Chistian community and the Jubilee Partner community.

On March 25, 2020, he suffered from a chronic disease and was called by God at the age of 100 in Larkland, Florida.

Her daughter, Brazilian missionary Evelyn McMullen, said, "My parents were cultural education missionaries who valued education. And the Presbyterian Church in Korea regarded education as an extension of evangelize work“

Louise Maxwell Worth with Kindergarten Children