
Bill also had a great love for all kinds of music, loved dogs, and rodeos.īut most of all Bill loved and lived for his family. He accumulated a vast life-long group of friends and colleagues that brought him much happiness. Bill kept busy with weekly darts, that he had been participating in for many years. In retirement Bill took up cycling, a new endeavour he was truly enjoying. He loved that every day was a new and different journey.
DEATH ROAD TO CANADA BILLY DRIVER
Bill worked on two separate occasions for Johnnie’s Excavating, first as a low-boy driver and ended his career driving dump truck. He began hauling grain for Hayes Trucking to Shelby, Montana, and drove tractor trailer units from Calgary to Vancouver. He attended numerous schools in the district, completing his education at Forest Lawn High School.īill worked various jobs until the excitement of the open road led him to a career in truck driving. In 1957 the family settled in the town of Forest Lawn (now part of Calgary).



He passed away suddenly at the Foothills Medical Centre on Novemfrom heart complications.īill’s family moved from Tisdale to Calgary in 1956. Bill was born in Tisdale, Saskatchewan on January 21, 1952.
