Davis is Veteran of the Month

Walker Davis, Idabel, Oklahoma, is Choctaw Nation’s Veteran of the Month.

He was born in Talihina in 1939 and lived in Stigler and Muskogee. He joined the US Navy at 17 years of age and did Basic Training in San Diego, California. He boarded a CVE (88) Military Sea Transport Carrier for a year transporting personnel, supplies and aircraft between Japan, the Philippines, and the United States, then went to Midway where he operated a crash boat, recovering military personnel after plane crashes. The last two years of his military career were aboard the USS Oriskany, a CVA 35 Aircraft Carrier.

Davis returned to civilian life and began selling shoes and then cars. He was sent to Flint, Michigan, to the GMI Dealer Development Academy for two years to learn the car business and was the only Native American there. He attended school full-time and earned a degree from Bacone College, then purchased the GM dealership in Idabel.

He is now retired but works as a volunteer for the Silver-Haired Legislature, coaches a chair volleyball team and does other volunteer activities. He says that volunteering is one of the greatest things that has ever happened to him. He and his wife, Charloete, have been married for 65 years and have a daughter, Gina, granddaughter Charlee Walls and spouse Shawn, and great-grandson Jace.

Davis is a true American Patriot. His father was in the US Navy and his brothers were in the US Marines and the US Army.

The Choctaw Nation holds our veterans in the highest esteem and appreciates their sacrifices and contributions to preserve our freedoms and the way of life we hold dear.