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Dr, Percy Leroy Walker was born on December 18, 1918, and died October 1995 in Amite, Louisiana. He was the son of Festus M. Walker and Corinne Briggs Walker. He graduated from Southern University in Agriculture Education and Tuskegee University in Veterinary medicine. He also graduated from officer training school and served in WW II and the Korean War as 1st Lieutenant. After his service years, he was a substitute teacher, social worker, and a government meat inspector. He established the Amite Veterinary Clinic in 1953 and continued his practice until 1995. He considered this area a "veterinarian's paradise" and loved his work as well as the people. On any afternoon he can be found vaccinating, dehorning and castrating animals. Vaccinations were for bangs disease, blackleg, and malignant edema. Dr. Walker said he vaccinated some 1,000 animals a year, primarily large ones. He is buried in the Amite Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Amite, Louisiana.
Harrison was born in 1859 in the Mississippi. He and his wife Philis were the parents of; Handy, Florence, Albert, Charley, Fancy, Elizabeth, Geneva, Jessie, and Mary Walker. Their son Festus Mix Walker and his wife Coreen were the parents of; Louis, Curtis, Willie Mae, Deletta, and Percy Walker.
