Headstone of Samnorwood airman missing

  • FLOYD KILLOUGH
    FLOYD KILLOUGH
  • Billy Walker’s Samnorwood Eagle yearbook photo. Photos Courtesy of Floyd Killough Collection
    Billy Walker’s Samnorwood Eagle yearbook photo. Photos Courtesy of Floyd Killough Collection
  • Plymouth Cemetery is located one mile west of Samnorwood and one mile south.
    Plymouth Cemetery is located one mile west of Samnorwood and one mile south.
    T/Sgt. (Technical Sergeant) Billy Kenneth Walker, a 1936 graduate of Samnorwood High School, was killed in action in Italy on May 13, 1944. It is assumed that his remains were repatriated to the United States after the war, because on Dec. 6, 1948, Wa l k e r ’s father, Barney Walker, applied for a headstone to be delivered to Samnorwood for the designated cemetery, Plymouth. The headstone wa...

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