Dr. Floyd was born in El Dorado, Arkansas; the son of John and Emma (Downs) Floyd. His father was a Phillips Petroleum employee and they apparently moved around several locations where the company had operations during his early years. He graduated from Southwestern Louisiana Institute (now ULL) and medical school (presumably LSU or Tulane), and became licensed in 1959.
1954 SLI L'Acadien (yearbook)
He and Lillian Cormier were married in March 1957.. In September 1959 he was identified among a group of doctors receiving their medical licenses, and began practicing at the Oil City Clinic in July 1960 per the attached announcement.
Shreveport Times 05-Jul-1960, Page 2-C
His parents had moved to nearby Vivian in 1960 and lived there until their respective deaths - Emma in 1978, and John in 1996. In June 1961, it was announced he was joining Dr. John F. Hall, Jr., MD at the Sunset Clinic in Shreveport.
By the mid-1960s, Dr. Floyd was living in Winn Parish where he served as coroner as well as on the school board. He relocated to Shreveport in 1970 to intern in psychiatry at the Confederate Memorial (now LSU) Medical Center. In 1973 he opened a psychiatry practice in Shreveport. He and Lillian divorced that same year. Dr. Floyd was noted to have been an witness in a sanity hearing for a murder case in Marshall, Texas in 1974. Below, he announced partnership with two other Shreveport physicians.
When his mother died in 1978, he was identified as being from Colton, California; but by the mid/late 1980s was living in New Orleans. He passed away there in 2001.
Billy Wayne Floyd, M.D., Age 67 Years, At Pensacola, Florida On Wednesday, July 18, 2001
At 10:49 Am. Devoted Companion Of William O. Frazier. Brother Of John Floyd, Jr. Of Belle Chasse, Louisiana, Lorene Dupuis And Eleanor Rogers, Both Of Vivian, Louisiana. Also Survived By 2 Daughters And 6 Grandchildren. Memorial Services To Be Announced By Bultman Funeral Home, 3338 St. Charles Avenue. Information: 895-7766.
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