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'''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
'''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>
==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 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/>