Anniversaries are often a time for celebration and reflection, and that is exactly what David and Shelia Wilbanks will do today as they remember their late son Walker Wilbanks. Today is the one-year anniversary of tragedy striking their family.
A campsite at Sardis Lake just outside of Oxford is where Walker Wilbanks’s football journey began. After attending an Ole Miss football game with friends and camping at Lake Sardis, the Wilbanks family decided to buy a camper of their own.
“When we started camping, Walker was five years old and Landon was three,” David Wilbanks said. “From that point on, it was all Ole Miss.