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.










I am so glad we were there last October. God rest her soul.
Indeed. How strange to think that you’ve already visited her grave.
Thanks S.E.
Exsultabunt ossa humiliata.
Oh, wrong post, which makes THIS the comment of the week.
Walker Percy
prayed for mercy
and for that stunt
God gave him Bunt.
Good one. She was the only one who would have him.
Bunt Townsend
Was one in a thousand.
‘My Walker’s a rarity’,
She said with charity.