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| Stephen Denney |
 Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:06 pm |
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Below is an obituary I have written for my father. I also have back issues
of the Bulletin of American Meteorology Society (BAMS), about five feet
high, which I can send to anyone interested (postage reimbursement
requested, prefer to send within U.S.). Otherwise I will donate them to my
local library.
- Steve Denney
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William J. Denney
Nov. 27, 1918 to Nov. 30, 2006
William Denney passed away Nov. 30, from cancer, at the Veterans
Administation Hospital in Palo Alto.
He was born in Douglas County Missouri Nov. 27, 1918. The family moved to a
farm in Greene County north of Springfield in January 1929. Bill was very
bright and industrious. He skipped two grades in elementary school and
entered Southwest Missouri State College at the age of 15. He graduated four
years later, in 1938, with highest honors, Magna Cum Laude, majoring in
Mathematics and Chemistry.
Following graduation, he began work for the U.S. Census Bureau in Washington
D.C. in 1939. During World War II while in the U.S. Army Air Force, he was
trained at New York University as a meteorologist. This became his lifelong
career. In 1942, he married Mary OIive Sprouse.
The last 29 years of his career were spent at the San Francisco Bay Area
division of the National Weather Service, where he rose to lead forecaster.
His forecasting expertise was wideley recognized. He was considered a
leading international expert on hurricane forecasting, and was named a
fellow of the American Meteorological Society, an honor normally reserved
for academicians. In 1973 he received the U.S. Department of Commerce Bronze
Medal Award for his work. When he retired in Jan. 1980, he was featured in
an article in the San Francisco Examiner and interviewed by local television
stations.
Bill was known for his modest and easygoing nature, his common sense and his
love for his family. He dealt gracefully with personal health problems of
leukemia and rheumetoid arthritis, outliving his leukemia diiagnosis by 15
years. He managed to maintain his health through frequent swimming in his
later years. He also enjoyed fishing, traveling with his family across the
United States, and crossword puzzles. He cared deeply about his wife and two
sons.
Together with his wife Mary, he was active in the Burlingame United
Methodist Church from the time they joined in 1960. He was also a member of
the Elks Club, the Civil War Roundtable and Sons in Retirement.
He is preceded in death by his wife Mary, for whom he cared during her final
years of struggle with Alzheimers. He is survived by his sons Stephen in
Berkeley and David in San Mateo; his sisters, Jacqueline Durnell of Sedalia,
Missouri, Fern Nivens of Belle Plaine, Kansas, and Ruth Presley of Bolivar,
Missouri; his sister-in-law Vera Snyder of Littleton, Colorado, and the
children and grandchildren of his sisters.
The family will receive friends on Friday, Nov. 8, from 10 a.m. to 11:30
a.m. at the Crosby N. Gray funeral home at 2 Park Road, Burlingame. This
will be followed by burial at Skylawn Memorial Park and then a memorial
service to be held at 1 p.m, at the Burlingame United Methodist Church, 1443
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| Weatherlawyer |
| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:49 pm |
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I believe my e-mail to you bounced. Well that serves you right for
munging your address. |
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| trent |
| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:41 pm |
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Weatherlawyer wrote:
Quote:
I believe my e-mail to you bounced. Well that serves you right for
munging your address.
"Weather lawyer," now there's a non-sequitur.
trent |
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