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'''Duvall Cortez Wimberly, Sr.''', known as '''D. C. Wimberly''' (September 14, 1917 &ndash; 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  

'''Duvall Cortez Wimberly, Sr.''', known as '''D. C. Wimberly''' (September 14, 1917 &ndash; 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  

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==Background==​

==Background==​

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/>​

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/>​

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==Wartime service==​

==Wartime service==​

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 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 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 in Springhill at the age of eighty-nine and is interred at the Wimberly Cemetery south of Ringgold in Bienville Parish.

Wimberly died in Springhill at the age of eighty-nine and is interred at the Wimberly Cemetery south of Ringgold in Bienville Parish.

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