William F. 'Bill' McGlachlin
PARSONS -- William F. "Bill"
McGlachlin, 73, of Parsons, died Thursday (Jan. 20, 2000) at Freeman
West Hospital in Joplin, Mo.
He was born Jan. 29, 1926, in Newton to
Roy and Dorothy (Brown) McGlachlin. He married Ruth Shepard Oct. 8,
1966, in Las Vegas. She survives of the home.
He lived in Newton, Burrton and
Hutchinson. He graduated from Burrton High School. He worked in the
oil fields in the late 1930s and early 1940s, in Kansas, Wyoming,
Texas, Louisiana and California He served in the U.S. Marine Corps
and was in the battle of Okinawa and later in Nagasaki, Japan in
1945.
He was employed at Camdril
International Co., in Tripoli, Libya, in 1962. He moved to southern
California in 1965, and worked on the south tower of Richfield Towers
in Los Angeles.
He was a former member of First
Christian Church in Newton. He was a member of Journeymen
Steamfitters Local No. 250 Union in Los Angeles, and United
Association of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United
States and Canada.
He enjoyed sports and animals.
He was preceded in death by one sister,
Kay McGlachlin; and one nephew.
Funeral services were Monday at
Carson-Wall Funeral Home in Parsons with Pastor Don Vance
officiating. Burial was in the Oakwood Cemetery with military honors
given by Brown-Bishop Post No. 704, Veterans of Foreign Wars in
Parson.
Memorials have been established with
Volunteers for Inter Valley Animals in Lompoc, Calif., in care of
Carson-Wall Funeral Home, 112 N. 26th, Parson KS 67357.
