Jerry Clower
Biography
28 September 1926, Amite County, Mississippi, USA, d. 24 August 1998, Jackson, Mississippi, USA. During the Depression, Clowers father went to Memphis to look for work but took to drink and neglected his family. His 17-year-old mother moved back to her fathers farm in Liberty, Mississippi, and when she remarried, they moved to another farm. Clower worked on the farm and served on an aircraft carrier during World War II. He married in 1947 and obtained a degree in agriculture in... Read more