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{{Infobox person
| name=Duvall Cortez "D. C." Wimberly, Sr.
(Educator and former president of American Ex-Prisoners of War)
| birth_date=September 14, 1917
| birth_place=Ringgold, Bienville Parish, [[Louisiana]], [[United States|USA]]
| death_date=January 27, 2007 (aged 89)
| death_place=Springhill, Webster Parish, Louisiana
| resting_place=Wimberly Family Cemetery in Bienville Parish
| spouse=Inez Gamble Wimberly (married 1943-2007, his death)<br>
'''Children:''' <br>
Sandra Wimberly Wren<br>
Duvall Wimberly, Jr., (born 1951)<br>
Virginia "Bess" Wimberly O'Malley (born 1955)<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Dempse and Arvie McGinty Wimberly<br>
'''Alma mater''':br>
Ringgold (Louisiana) High School<br>
[[Northwestern State University]]<br>
[[Louisiana State University<br>
[[Auburn University]]<br>
'''Notes:'''<br>
*D.C. Wimberly said that as an ex-[[POW]] in Stalag XII in [[Germany]], he had learned to "help those who cannot help themselves."<br>
* Wimberly was awarded the [[Bronze Star]], [[Purple Heart]], and Battle Stars for his [[World War II]] service.<br>
*From 1974 to 1975, Wimberly headed the veterans' organizastion, American Ex-Prisoners of War.
}}
'''Duvall Cortez Wimberly, Sr.''', known as '''D. C. Wimberly''' (September 14, 1917 – January 27, 2007), was a [[United States Army]] soldier taken [[prisoner of war]] in the [[Europe]]an theater of [[World War II]] and a past national commander of American Ex-Prisoners of War, a veterans organization based in Arlington, [[Texas]]. He was also an [[educator]] and school administrator for thirty-seven years in Bienville and Webster parishes in northwestern [[Louisiana]].<ref name=obit>{{cite news|url=http://www.legacy.com/shreveporttimes/Obituaries.asp?Page=Lifestory&PersonId=86208223|title=D. C. Wimberly|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=January 29, 2007|accessdate=?}}</ref>4ry
==Background==
Wimberly was born to Dempse Wimberly and the former Arvie McGinty in Ringgold in western Bienville Parish. He graduated from Ringgold High School in 1934 and received a bachelor's degree in 1940 from [[Northwestern State University]] in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]]. He obtained a master's degree in education from [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]] in 1946 and post-master's instruction thereafter from [[Auburn University]] in Auburn, [[Alabama]].<ref name=obit/>
Wimberly first taught in Bienville Parish and then in neighboring Webster Parish; he was a principal in four different schools: Sibley High School (1947–1949), Shongaloo High School (1949–1954), and thereafter Springhill Junior High School and Browning Elementary School, both in Springhill.<ref>"School Principal Changes Are Made by School Board," ''Minden Herald,'' March 5, 1954, p. 1.</ref> Wimberly retired from professional education in 1975. While he was still a principal, he ran unsuccessfully for the Springhill City Council. In a heated contest for the Louisiana State Senate in 1967, Wimberly signed a public letter of endorsement of Springhill native [[Jack Montgomery (Louisiana politician)|John Willard "Jack" Montgomery, Sr.]], who unseated incumbent [[Harold Montgomery]] of Doyline in south Webster Parish.<ref>''[[Minden Press-Herald]],'' December 14, 1967, p. 2.</ref>
In 1943, Wimberly married the former Inez Gamble, a native of Grand Cane in De Soto Parish who was born in February 1921. They had three children: Sandra (born 1949), Duvall, Jr., (born 1952), and Virginia "Bess" (born 1955). Wimberly died of a blood disorder in Springhill, where he had lived since 195 until 2011, when she relocated to [[Bossier City]].<ref name=obit/>
==Wartime service==
Wimberly recounted his wartime exploits: "On [[Thanksgiving Day|Thanksgiving]] night 1944 in [[Luxembourg]], the members of the [[Germany|German]] Army counterattacked my battalion. Companies E and F were wiped out. I was the Third Platoon sergeant. . . . I lost forty-six men from my fifty-man platoon. Three others and myself were captured. That night and the next few months [we were] starving, freezing, walking over lots of Germans from southwest [[Germany]] to northeast [[Poland]] and back to south of [[Berlin, Germany|Berlin]]. I felt, and to this day feel, [that] I am living on borrowed time. I have assisted my fellow Americans as a school teacher, administrator, Mason, and Shriner, [having] dedicated my life to the [[Christianity|Christian]] effort of 'helping those who cannot help themselves.' This is also the motto of American Ex-Prisoners of War."<ref name=obit/>
Wimberly was confined to Stalag XII and several other camps. He was liberated by the [[Russia|Russians] on April 22, 1945, escaped on May 9, and was discharged from the military on December 12, 1945. He received the [[Purple Heart]], [[Bronze Star]], and two Battle Stars.<ref name=obit/>
Wimberly was named in 1971 as the Louisiana chapter commander of the American Ex-Prisoners of War.<ref>''The Shreveport Times,'' September 9, 1971. In 1974-1975, he was elected national commander of Ex-Prisoner of War at the annual convention held that year in [[Las Vegas]], [[Nevada]]. He was involved in budgeting, membership, publicity, and as judge advocate <ref name=obit/>
Wimberly was a cousin of [[Lorris Wimberly]], a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for Bienville Parish who also served on three occasions as the state House [[Speaker]] between 1936 and 1956. His brother, Lucian McDade "Dade" Wimberly (1922–1990), was a Louisiana state trooper from [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], seat of Webster Parish, who ran unsuccessfully for chief of police in 1970.<ref>''Minden Press-Herald,'', August 19, 1970, p. 1,</ref>
Wimberly died at the age of eighty-nine and is interred at the Wimberly Cemetery south of Ringgold in Bienville Parish.
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[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Educators]]
[[Category:World War II]]
[[Category:Prisoners of war]]
[[Category:United States Army]]
[[Category:Southern Baptists]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
| name=Duvall Cortez "D. C." Wimberly, Sr.
(Educator and former president of American Ex-Prisoners of War)
| birth_date=September 14, 1917
| birth_place=Ringgold, Bienville Parish, [[Louisiana]], [[United States|USA]]
| death_date=January 27, 2007 (aged 89)
| death_place=Springhill, Webster Parish, Louisiana
| resting_place=Wimberly Family Cemetery in Bienville Parish
| spouse=Inez Gamble Wimberly (married 1943-2007, his death)<br>
'''Children:''' <br>
Sandra Wimberly Wren<br>
Duvall Wimberly, Jr., (born 1951)<br>
Virginia "Bess" Wimberly O'Malley (born 1955)<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Dempse and Arvie McGinty Wimberly<br>
'''Alma mater''':br>
Ringgold (Louisiana) High School<br>
[[Northwestern State University]]<br>
[[Louisiana State University<br>
[[Auburn University]]<br>
'''Notes:'''<br>
*D.C. Wimberly said that as an ex-[[POW]] in Stalag XII in [[Germany]], he had learned to "help those who cannot help themselves."<br>
* Wimberly was awarded the [[Bronze Star]], [[Purple Heart]], and Battle Stars for his [[World War II]] service.<br>
*From 1974 to 1975, Wimberly headed the veterans' organizastion, American Ex-Prisoners of War.
}}
'''Duvall Cortez Wimberly, Sr.''', known as '''D. C. Wimberly''' (September 14, 1917 – January 27, 2007), was a [[United States Army]] soldier taken [[prisoner of war]] in the [[Europe]]an theater of [[World War II]] and a past national commander of American Ex-Prisoners of War, a veterans organization based in Arlington, [[Texas]]. He was also an [[educator]] and school administrator for thirty-seven years in Bienville and Webster parishes in northwestern [[Louisiana]].<ref name=obit>{{cite news|url=http://www.legacy.com/shreveporttimes/Obituaries.asp?Page=Lifestory&PersonId=86208223|title=D. C. Wimberly|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=January 29, 2007|accessdate=?}}</ref>4ry
==Background==
Wimberly was born to Dempse Wimberly and the former Arvie McGinty in Ringgold in western Bienville Parish. He graduated from Ringgold High School in 1934 and received a bachelor's degree in 1940 from [[Northwestern State University]] in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]]. He obtained a master's degree in education from [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]] in 1946 and post-master's instruction thereafter from [[Auburn University]] in Auburn, [[Alabama]].<ref name=obit/>
Wimberly first taught in Bienville Parish and then in neighboring Webster Parish; he was a principal in four different schools: Sibley High School (1947–1949), Shongaloo High School (1949–1954), and thereafter Springhill Junior High School and Browning Elementary School, both in Springhill.<ref>"School Principal Changes Are Made by School Board," ''Minden Herald,'' March 5, 1954, p. 1.</ref> Wimberly retired from professional education in 1975. While he was still a principal, he ran unsuccessfully for the Springhill City Council. In a heated contest for the Louisiana State Senate in 1967, Wimberly signed a public letter of endorsement of Springhill native [[Jack Montgomery (Louisiana politician)|John Willard "Jack" Montgomery, Sr.]], who unseated incumbent [[Harold Montgomery]] of Doyline in south Webster Parish.<ref>''[[Minden Press-Herald]],'' December 14, 1967, p. 2.</ref>
In 1943, Wimberly married the former Inez Gamble, a native of Grand Cane in De Soto Parish who was born in February 1921. They had three children: Sandra (born 1949), Duvall, Jr., (born 1952), and Virginia "Bess" (born 1955). Wimberly died of a blood disorder in Springhill, where he had lived since 195 until 2011, when she relocated to [[Bossier City]].<ref name=obit/>
==Wartime service==
Wimberly recounted his wartime exploits: "On [[Thanksgiving Day|Thanksgiving]] night 1944 in [[Luxembourg]], the members of the [[Germany|German]] Army counterattacked my battalion. Companies E and F were wiped out. I was the Third Platoon sergeant. . . . I lost forty-six men from my fifty-man platoon. Three others and myself were captured. That night and the next few months [we were] starving, freezing, walking over lots of Germans from southwest [[Germany]] to northeast [[Poland]] and back to south of [[Berlin, Germany|Berlin]]. I felt, and to this day feel, [that] I am living on borrowed time. I have assisted my fellow Americans as a school teacher, administrator, Mason, and Shriner, [having] dedicated my life to the [[Christianity|Christian]] effort of 'helping those who cannot help themselves.' This is also the motto of American Ex-Prisoners of War."<ref name=obit/>
Wimberly was confined to Stalag XII and several other camps. He was liberated by the [[Russia|Russians] on April 22, 1945, escaped on May 9, and was discharged from the military on December 12, 1945. He received the [[Purple Heart]], [[Bronze Star]], and two Battle Stars.<ref name=obit/>
Wimberly was named in 1971 as the Louisiana chapter commander of the American Ex-Prisoners of War.<ref>''The Shreveport Times,'' September 9, 1971. In 1974-1975, he was elected national commander of Ex-Prisoner of War at the annual convention held that year in [[Las Vegas]], [[Nevada]]. He was involved in budgeting, membership, publicity, and as judge advocate <ref name=obit/>
Wimberly was a cousin of [[Lorris Wimberly]], a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for Bienville Parish who also served on three occasions as the state House [[Speaker]] between 1936 and 1956. His brother, Lucian McDade "Dade" Wimberly (1922–1990), was a Louisiana state trooper from [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], seat of Webster Parish, who ran unsuccessfully for chief of police in 1970.<ref>''Minden Press-Herald,'', August 19, 1970, p. 1,</ref>
Wimberly died at the age of eighty-nine and is interred at the Wimberly Cemetery south of Ringgold in Bienville Parish.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wimberly, D. C..}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Educators]]
[[Category:World War II]]
[[Category:Prisoners of war]]
[[Category:United States Army]]
[[Category:Southern Baptists]]
[[Category:Democrats]]