(1937 - 2023) Wayne E. Davis was born in Walker County, Alabama. Following high school, he attended Auburn University when he graduated in 1958 with a BA in Agriculture with a major in Animal Science. He received his MS in Dairy Science in 1968. Wayne was the County...
(1925 – 2009) Dr. James Ira Dawson was born in Pike County, Alabama, on January 14, 1925, and spent his entire life serving the state of Alabama. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees in agriculture from Alabama A&M College, Tuskegee Institute, and...
(1891 – 1976) Mary Louise Smith’s family and the family of her husband, Sam Day, were pioneers in the community of Nixburg in Coosa County, Alabama. It was there, and in Alexander City, Tallapoosa County, where they moved in 1922, that she and her husband worked to...
(1871 – 1941) Sam Day was a true son of the soil. Born of farming parents on January 25, 1871, near Nixburg in Coosa County, Alabama, the major part of his life was dedicated to farming and improving the farming capabilities of his friends and neighbors. Early in...
(1904 – 1989) Walton LaVerne Deakle was born on February 5, 1904, in Coden, Alabama. He attended Alba High School in Mobile County, receiving a diploma in 1922. Mr. Deakle joined Extension in 1940. His thirty-three-year career of service was all spent in his home...
(1909 – 1993) John Boyd Deavours, born in Bankston, Alabama, on February 5, 1909, gave forty years of dedicated service to the people of Alabama. He served thirty-three years as an Extension agent before retiring from the position of County Agent-Coordinator in Hale...