William Earl Whigham Jr's Obituary
Billy Whigham of Pottsboro, Texas was born October 27, 1938 in Waller County, Texas to parents Laura Ella Wilson Whigham and William Earl Whigham, Senior. Billy passed away on July 24, 2024 at the age of 85 from complications of a stroke.
In 1958, shortly after graduating from Kimball High School in Oak Cliff, Billy answered the call of his Country and joined the Navy where he continued his education and ultimately acquired the position of Instructor in the Aero Division.
Around this time, Billy married Joyce Milam and from this union, daughter Tammy was born. After a four-year stretch in the Navy, Billy enrolled at the University of North Texas where he earned a Bachelor’s degree and subsequently began a teaching career at Duncanville High School. After teaching, other professional endeavors followed. But, the family’s favorite of Billy’s jobs was that of candy salesman! For years, Billy showered family and friends with an endless supply of fine chocolates and confectionaries.
In 1980, Billy wed Peggy Moorman and joined families with her young brood, Kimree, Nevin, and D’Ray. Later in life, as the children grew into adults, the family members collaborated to establish some very successful entrepreneurial enterprises.
Those who knew Billy remember him as a charismatic people-person, a charmer, and one who could fix or build anything. He was also an athlete who loved water skiing, snow skiing, tennis, frisbee, running, and working out daily.
Billy was an avid lover of games. But whether he was enjoying bridge, dominoes, or poker his biggest joy was being with the friends across the table. Now, that doesn’t necessarily imply that the friends were always happy with him, especially when he won! He was very competitive and passionate about winning. But his infectious smile and easy-going demeanor ensured that any sore losers (or winners) would always return to the card table to play again – eventually.
Second to the people Billy loved came his lawn. He was a meticulous groundskeeper and was a master at landscaping. One of his landscaping masterpieces was a gazebo that he designed and built along with a stone waterfall feature that circulated water into an immaculate Coy fish pond in his backyard. The structure would have been the envy of any modern-day waterpark. This feat was evidence that, when he put his mind to it, he could conceive and build just about anything.
Billy was preceded in death by his parents, Laura Ella Wilson Whigham and William Earl Whigham, Senior, brother Bobby Whigham, sister Jimmie Ann Parker, and step-daughter Kimree Jovan.
Surviving family members of Billy include his daughter, Tammy Whigham Cumpton and husband Ray Cumpton, former wife Joyce Milam Moiola, former wife Peggy Moorman Whigham, step-sons Nevin Moorman and D’Ray Moorman, grandson Connor Cumpton, grandson Nevin Ray Moorman, grand-daughter Shara Parish and husband Billy Parish, great-grandsons Nevin D. Moorman and Jackson Parish, niece Kathy Seidel and husband Barney Seidel, and nephew Stephen Seidel.
In lieu of flowers please consider donating to a charity of your choice.
Services are pending with Restland Funeral Home & Crematory.
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