Queer Places:
23 Eastbrooke St, Jackson, MS 39216
Lakewood Memorial Park
Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi, USA
Benjamin Perry Folk, Jr. (August 14, 1917 - March 20, 1988) was among Mississippi’s most distinguished physicians.
Benjamin Perry Folk was born in Tallulah, LA. Folk, a graduate of Vanderbilt Medical School, a fellow of John Hopkins School of Medicine, and a decorated WWII veteran, was well-known in Mississippi. Among the state’s most distinguished physicians, he had retired after a 36 year practive; he had helped found the exclusive River Hill Tennis Club, just up Lakeland Drive from his home. His coming out as gay, forced the withdrawal from his medical partnership, and his later sole practive, tending to the needs of, among others, gay and transsexual clients.
On March 20, 1988, in his pricey Eastbrooke condominium in northeast Jackson, Dr. Ben Folk, age 70, was found dead by two male houseguests returning from lunch. Kenneth Wayne Overby and John Woodrow Tyler III, 24 years old, were arrested. Overby plead guilty to accessory charges and Tyler was convicted of robbery and homicide.
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