Billups Phinizy Percy, retired law professor, Tulane University Law School, died January 18, 2013, at Christwood Nursing Home in Covington following a brief illness with family at his side. He was 91.
Percy was born January 3, 1922 in Birmingham, Alabama, the youngest of three sons of Leroy Pratt and Martha Susan Phinizy Percy. He moved to Greenville, Mississippi at age 7 following the death of his father. Following his mother's death two years later, he and his brothers were adopted by their...
Billups Phinizy Percy, retired law professor, Tulane University Law School, died January 18, 2013, at Christwood Nursing Home in Covington following a brief illness with family at his side. He was 91.
Percy was born January 3, 1922 in Birmingham, Alabama, the youngest of three sons of Leroy Pratt and Martha Susan Phinizy Percy. He moved to Greenville, Mississippi at age 7 following the death of his father. Following his mother's death two years later, he and his brothers were adopted by their...