Obituaries

Wilbur Clinton West

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Wilbur Clinton (W.C) West, 93 of Clinton died at home June 29 after a two week stay at the VA Hospital for a heart attack complicated by pneumonia. He was born March 18, 1923, in Christine, Texas- the second youngest of eleven children and the youngest son. His parents, Samuel Sampson West and Ida Melinda (Chatham) West had migrated from Louisiana to Texas in a covered wagon with five little boys in tow. He served in the US Navy during WWII and met the love of his life while stationed in Great Lakes, Illinois. They married in Chicago in 1944 and moved to Red Hill in Botkinburg in 1951 where they bought a farm and proceeded to eke out a living and raise a family. W.C. operated a grade A dairy farm from 1959 to 1989 then ran The Side Pocket pool hall until his health began to fail in 2011. He was an outstanding high school athlete and played baseball in local leagues into his 60's. He coached boys' baseball-Buddy through Pony League when his boys were young. He seldom missed a baseball game on TV- especially the Cubs with "Mama" by his side. W.C. is survived by his wife of 72 years, Grace (Dublinski) West, daughters; Trudy (LD) Cox, Susan Weston, Patty West, Melinda (Dale) West-Carter, sons; Clint (Ronda) West and John West, grandchildren; Judy (Vernon) Wells, Sally Perkins, Cheryl Ellis, Jeffrey (Jing) Krzeszinski, Adam Cheshier, Stuart Weston, Valerie West and Emily West, great-grandchildren; Johnny (Joanna) Ohnmacht, Samantha Ellis and Jack Krzeszinski, great-great-grandchild, Izabell Ohnmacht, an older brother, Woodrow West of Texas, a younger sister, Alma, of California and many nieces and nephews. There will be a visitation at 1 p.m. on Saturday, July 2, 2016 at the Roller McNutt Funeral Home Chapel. Funeral services will follow at 2 p.m. at the Funeral Home. Funeral arrangements are under the care and direction of Roller-McNutt Funeral Home in Clinton, Arkansas. For online guestbook; www.rollerfuneralhomes.com/clinton.

Published July 1, 2016

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