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PFC Billy Landers Walker

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PFC Billy Landers Walker

Birth
Decatur, Wise County, Texas, USA
Death
18 Nov 1944 (aged 18)
France
Burial
Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, USA Add to Map
Plot
Chapel Garden
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Reburial services for Pfc. Billy L. Walker, killed in action in France November 18, 1944, will be held at 3 p. m. Wednesday at University Park Methodist Church. Boy Scouts from the church troop, which he helped organize, will form a guard of honor.

Walker was a graduate of Highland Park High School and attended Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas before entering service. He served with the 100th Division. His awards included the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star.

Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Landers C. Walker, 5517 Hanover; grandparents, Mrs. Minnie O. Horton, Dallas, and W. T. McCracken Decatur.

The Rev. Lance Webb, the Rev. J. Daniel Barron and the Rev. Herman R. Howard will officiate at the services. Reburial will be in Restland Memorial Park, where the Order of DeMolays will be in charge.

Pallbearers will be Jimmy Keeling, George Keeling, Edward White, Jr., Wesley Crawford, Kabot Baker, and Dan McElligott.

Dallas News
04-21-1948

Parents Landers Walker and Jessie Mc Cracken.
Reburial services for Pfc. Billy L. Walker, killed in action in France November 18, 1944, will be held at 3 p. m. Wednesday at University Park Methodist Church. Boy Scouts from the church troop, which he helped organize, will form a guard of honor.

Walker was a graduate of Highland Park High School and attended Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas before entering service. He served with the 100th Division. His awards included the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star.

Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Landers C. Walker, 5517 Hanover; grandparents, Mrs. Minnie O. Horton, Dallas, and W. T. McCracken Decatur.

The Rev. Lance Webb, the Rev. J. Daniel Barron and the Rev. Herman R. Howard will officiate at the services. Reburial will be in Restland Memorial Park, where the Order of DeMolays will be in charge.

Pallbearers will be Jimmy Keeling, George Keeling, Edward White, Jr., Wesley Crawford, Kabot Baker, and Dan McElligott.

Dallas News
04-21-1948

Parents Landers Walker and Jessie Mc Cracken.


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