Obit of Walker, Billy Dee "B.D." - Custer County, Oklahoma

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::Ochiltree Cemetery--Perryton TX

Amarillo Globe News 4 Sep 1997

Billy Dee Walker

PERRYTON - Billy Dee "B.D." Walker, 74, of Wichita Falls, a former 
resident of Perryton, died Monday, Sept. 1, 1997.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday in First United Methodist Church 
with the Rev. Dan Bruce of First United Methodist Church of Hurst and 
the Rev. Steve Ulrey of Perryton officiating. Burial will be in 
Ochiltree Cemetery by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home.

Mr. Walker was born in Gainesville and raised in Altus, Okla. While 
in high school, he played with the Altus High School Band at the 
White House in Washington D.C. During his junior year in high school, 
he was named Outstanding Flute and Piccolo Player in the United 
States.

He attended Southwestern College in Weatherford, Okla., where he was 
active in musical organizations. His college career was interrupted 
by World War II, when he served with the Navy stationed in the South 
Pacific. During his military career, he played in the Commander's 
Band.

After World War II, Mr. Walker returned to college and received his 
degree at Southwestern. He later earned a master's degree in 
education at West Texas State University.

Mr. Walker's initial teaching position was as band director at the 
Snyder, Okla., public schools. He served as the band director in 
Tulia and was the band director in Perryton from 1952 to 1965.

The latter years of his teaching career were spent as a band director 
in the Wichita Falls school system.

He married Betty Walker in 1942. She died in 1972. He married Gene 
Walker in 1986 at Wichita Falls.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Charles Walker of Dunlap, Iowa; 
two daughters, Nancy Bruce of Arlington and Jeani Walker of Houston; 
seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

The family requests memorials be to the scholarship fund at Perryton 
High School, Ranger Loan Fund, Box 929, Perryton, Texas 79070.
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