JACKSON COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — Robert ‘Buck’ Walker was laid to rest on Friday.
Walker was one of the few remaining World War II heroes living in north Alabama.
“He’s had a wonderful, useful life,” said widow Betty Walker. “He’s been a wonderful husband, and we’ve had a great marriage for seventy-two and a half years. I’m just thankful that I had him that long.”
Buck was called into military service immediately after graduating from high school in Princeton, where he served his country in WWII in the Third Armored Division under U.S. General George S. Patton in 1942.
Walker was one of many who stormed the beaches of Normandy at Omaha Beach in France, one of 5 landing beaches targeted by U.S. forces in 1944.
“He stayed ten and a half years, and he was proud of that service, and he was always sad about the friends that he lost in battle and was very, very blessed to have come out without hardly any injuries,” Betty Walker said.
Buck Walker passed away on July 8, just six weeks shy of his 100th birthday.
“When we married, he came out of the service, he said, he just didn’t think married men had any business in the service,” Betty Walker said
Buck Walker was a member of the Jackson County Board of Education and served two terms on the county commission.
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