Rest in Peace, Mrs. Percy

Walker and Bunt Percy

Mrs. Percy, a native of Doddsville, Miss., was known to everyone as Bunt. She acquired that nickname in childhood from her father’s farm workers, who referred to her as Little Bunt and then Bunt, said Mary Pratt Lobdell, one of her daughters.She enrolled at Millsaps College in Jackson, where she trained to become a laboratory technologist.She was working at a clinic in Greenville, Miss., when she met Percy. They dated seven years before marrying in 1946.

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  1. Matthew Lickona says:

    I am so glad we were there last October. God rest her soul.

  2. Thanks S.E.

  3. Angelico Nguyen, Esq., OP says:

    Exsultabunt ossa humiliata.

  4. Oh, wrong post, which makes THIS the comment of the week.

  5. Jonathan Potter says:

    Walker Percy
    prayed for mercy
    and for that stunt
    God gave him Bunt.

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