Thursday, February 5, 2009
To Bill's much loved family, my hearfelt condolences. Your father was my neighbor and my friend. We first met over the top of the backyard fence, and we would stop to chat and share our thoughts on life. I believe we both just loved being outside in the fresh air for just about any reason. Your Dad's love of life, his family and his dearly missed Shirley was so evident in the stories he would relate to me over a piece of pound cake and a cup of tea on dreary or wet winter afternoons in his last years. He loved his racing days, the friends he made through racing and his travels. His aged eyes would light up and be followed by a chuckle, I adored, as he recalled his days as a younger man. I have been away from Lincroft for almost a year now and have missed my visits with your father. My last communication with him was through a Christmas card wishing him well and hoping that the New Year would be all that he hoped for. I believe the one wish Bill had for some time, his desire to be reunited with his beloved Shirley, the love of his life, has finally been realized. God bless him and keep him, and those of us who loved him. Mary Ellen Hintz
