Bill Castle
Posted: February 14, 2009
William Marion Castle, 89, died Feb. 14, 2009, at his residence at Trinity Place Retirement Community. Services are today at 2 p.m. at Gunter & Peel Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Ron McDougal officiating. Burial will follow at Mt. Vernon Cemetery in Columbus. Visitation is today, one hour prior to service time, at the funeral home. Mr. Castle was born April 6, 1919, in Kilmicheal, to the late Walter N. and Cora Weeks Castle. He was a graduate of Kilmicheal High School. He was a veteran of World War II serving in the United States Army Air Corp. He was a retired electrician and project and plant engineer for Weyerhaeuser. He is survived by his wife, Betty Kidd Castle, of Columbus; daughters, Shirley Castle, of Arlington, Va., Marilyn Castle, of Ashville, N.C., and Marian Parker, of Rome, Ga.; stepson, Larry Daves; five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Mark Looney, Atwell Daves, Shawn Dyson and Bill and Ed Kidd. Memorials may be made to Palmer Home for Children, P.O. Box 746, Columbus, MS 39703.