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Guin graduated in 1944 from Clifton Ellis Byrd High School in Shreveport<ref>{{cite web|url=http://openbuildings.com/buildings/c-e-byrd-high-school-profile-22393?_show_description=1|title=C. E. Byrd High School|publisher=openbuildings.com|accessdate=July 24, 2014}}</ref> and then entered [[Virginia Military Institute]] in Lexington, [[Virginia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.e-yearbook.com/yearbooks/Virginia_Military_Institute_Bomb_Yearbook/1949/Page_128.html|title=Billy Guin, Class of 1949|publisher=e-yearbook.comlaccessdate=July 25, 2014}}</ref> Guin left VMI for duty in the [[United States Marine Corps]] in extended [[World War II]] service. He then returned to VMI, from which he received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering. There he met his wife, the former Nancy Jane Beale (1927-2018), a native of Franklin near [[Norfolk]], Virginia.<ref>{{cite web|url=
Guin graduated in 1944 from Clifton Ellis Byrd High School in Shreveport<ref>{{cite web|url=http://openbuildings.com/buildings/c-e-byrd-high-school-profile-22393?_show_description=1|title=C. E. Byrd High School|publisher=openbuildings.com|accessdate=July 24, 2014}}</ref> and then entered [[Virginia Military Institute]] in Lexington, [[Virginia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.e-yearbook.com/yearbooks/Virginia_Military_Institute_Bomb_Yearbook/1949/Page_128.html|title=Billy Guin, Class of 1949|publisher=e-yearbook.comlaccessdate=July 25, 2014}}</ref> Guin left VMI for duty in the [[United States Marine Corps]] in extended [[World War II]] service. He then returned to VMI, from which he received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering. There he met his wife, the former Nancy Jane Beale (1927-2018), a native of Franklin near [[Norfolk]], Virginia.<ref>{{cite web|url=
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?pid=187986102|title=Nancy Jane Beale Guin|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=January 28, 2018}}</ref>
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?pid=187986102|title=Nancy Jane Beale Guin|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=February 8, 2020}}</ref>
Guin also served with the U.S. Army during the [[Korean War]]. He remained thereafter in the [[United States Army]] Reserve for three decades. On his return to Shreveport, he became affiliated with E. M. Freeman and Associates and United Gas before he formed the former B. J. Guin Engineering Company.<ref name=zoominfo>Billy James Guin, Sr., Zoominfo.com, July 24, 2014.</ref>
Guin also served with the U.S. Army during the [[Korean War]]. He remained thereafter in the [[United States Army]] Reserve for three decades. On his return to Shreveport, he became affiliated with E. M. Freeman and Associates and United Gas before he formed the former B. J. Guin Engineering Company.<ref name=zoominfo>Billy James Guin, Sr., Zoominfo.com, July 24, 2014.</ref>