Larry,
Subject: a picture for you
Date: 1/15/2012 1:11:45 P.M. Mountain Standard Time
From: bahyatt@nts-online.net
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To: mailto:LarryAndy@aol.comOf course you do not know these folks but I had this up to tell a lot of my line of kin that Bill West age 80 died in his sleep at a care center where he had been for a few months. His wife, Doris is the grand daughter of Loretta Hyatt Shipman who was the oldest child of Jesse and Ella Hyatt. Jesse, my grandfather was the son of Stephen S. Hyatt and was born in Denton in 1859. In case you are interested you can find Bill's obit in the Lubbock Avalanche Journal on line today.
Doris father William Shipman was the first grandchild of Jess and Ella which made him my first cousin, but he was so much older than most of us that he seemed more like an uncle and Doris and her siblings more like first cousins when we were growing up. Loretta married Edgar Shipman at a young age and Boon, my dad the second born of Jess and Ella didn't marry until he was twenty eight so we were more the age of Bill and Winnie Shipman's children than of our first cousins.
One of Bill and Doris West daughters lives in Idaho. Doris told me her daughter lived in Boise, but the obit says Caldwell so I guess it is a subburb of Boise.
Your cousin,
B A Hyatt
You have been sent 1 picture. Bill & Doris in Azaleas.jpgWilliam Harvey West was born April 30, 1931 in La Jara, CO to William Benjamin and Lorna Fern (Warren) West. He grew up in Monte Vista, Colo., graduated from Monte Vista High School in 1949 and attended Adam State College.
Bill Joined the U.S. Air Force in 1951 and became a pilot. He served during the Korean Conflict and was stationed in Okinawa and Formosa, then at Cannon AFB in Clovis, N.M. He left the Air Force in 1958.
Bill married Doris Pauline Shipman on June 30, 1957 in Lubbock, TX. They spent their honeymoon in Glacier National Park where Bill had worked on a trail crew when he was 19.
After leaving the Air Force, Bill worked for the U.S. Postal Service, then for the Social Security Administration where he retired after 30 years. Bill was very active at St. Luke's United Methodist Church where he chaired several committees and taught Sunday School and the Bethel Bible Class.
Bill passed away January 12, 2012.
Survivors include his wife, Doris; their three children, Mary Bowles and husband, Jack of Caldwell, Idaho, Teri Anderson and husband, Frank of Lubbock, and Paul West and wife, Kristin of Salisbury, Maryland; a brother, Lorne West and wife, Sandy of Midpines, Calif.; seven grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren will always cherish their memories of him.
Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at St. Luke's United Methodist Church, 45th and Memphis. Interment with military honors will follow at Resthaven Memorial Park under the direction of Sanders Funeral Home.
Family will receive friends at Sanders Funeral Home on Monday from 6 until 7 p.m