[QCWA] Obituary, John Jerome Willig, W8ACE

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  WILLIG, John Jerome, 87, died January 30th in Sarasota,
Florida. He was born in St. Paul Minnesota. November 19,
1917 and came to Sarasota in 1984 from Kettering, Ohio.
  He was a Senior Civilian in the Department of Defense at
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and graduated from the
University of Dayton. He served in the United States Air
Force from 1940 till 1951 and achieved the rank of Major.
He was a former president of the Kiwanis Club of Kettering
and twice as Lieutenant Governor of Ohio. He was the past
president of the Dayton Amateur Radio Association where he
founded the Hamvention, the world's largest ham radio
convention, and was an active enthusiast with the call
W8ACE. He was a member of the Church of the Palms,
Presbyterian. He is survived by his wife, Ruth of Sarasota,
a daughter, Susan Fister of Lexington, Kentucky, and two
sons, John of Boulder, Colorado and James, of Sarasota,
three grandchildren and two great grandchildren and sister,
June Miller of St. Paul, Minnesota. Services will be held
at the Church of the Palms Chapel at 3224 Bee Ridge Road in
Sarasota on Friday, February, 18th at 2pm. In lieu of
flowers, the family requests donations are made to the
Alzheimer's Association or Hospice of SW Florida.
(The Dayton Daily News, February 11, 2005, page B4)