Mary Louise (Walker) Gilbert had a unique beginning in life. She was born Nov. 11, 1952, in Houston, Mo., on Dooley Street, delivered on her aunt’s kitchen table by Dr. T.J. Burns. When she was a few months old, she moved to Michigan and then to Chicago, Ill., with her mother, Ida “Louise” (Bates) Walker, and her father, Billy Dean Walker.
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