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WILLIAM
H. HESSELTINE
Sept. 1932 - Feb. 18th, 2010
Memorial services
were held for Bill on Sunday Feb 21st at the Sardis
United Methodist
Church in Dadeville, Alabama.
Bill started his Air
Force career in 1955 while with the Air National Guard in Tennessee.
He was a 2nd Lieutenant at that time. During his illustrious 20 years with the
Air Force, Bill had assignments at the following Air Force Bases in addition
to Karamursel Air Station: McGee/Tyson
AFB in Tennessee, Sawyer AFB in Michigan, the Pentagon, Vietnam
and Maxwell AFB in Alabama. During this time Bill achieved the rank of
Lt. Colonel and retired with honors in 1975.
He earned a Masters Degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Bill was a very strong supporter of
our organization and made it to nearly every reunion since being located,
despite a number of physical challenges.
He always had very interesting stories to relate and strongly believed that
those who served in Karamursel were, as he put it, the cream of the cream. Bill too was the best of the best and
everyone in the group will sorely miss him.
At the suggestion of
Bill’s daughter, the group will be making a charitable contribution to
the American Diabetes
Association. If anyone would like to
do something on his or her own, you may also want to consider donating to
this worthy cause. Acknowledgement of
your donation or condolences should be sent to Bill’s daughter Joanna
at the following address:
Joanna Harger
892 Sound Harbor
Cir
Gulf Breeze, FL 32563
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