Remembering the life, death and legacy of Purple Heart recipient William Waltrip
08/17/1919-04/06/2018 On Friday morning, April 6th a hero went to join the Pantheon of heroes. There are lives well lived and then there are lives that are the stuff of novels. Bill's life was the latter. Born August 17th 1919 in Springfield Illinois, son of Mary Shrader Waltrip and William Henry Waltrip he grew up in his family's home towns of Mattoon and Tuscola. Most of his youth was spent on his Grandfather Waltrip's farm where he found his love of horses and the outdoors which...
