William O. Barbour

It's taken a couple weeks for me to have the strength and courage to write this. What do you say about a man of such unwavering integrity and morals? Men like my father are few and far between, and this world is a sadder place without him.

My dad had a work ethic second to none and an inherent trust in people to do the right thing. The greatest lesson he ever taught me was to trust everyone you meet until they give you a reason not to. That may sound risky in this day and age,...

Father I will miss you. My earliest memory of you is when I was just just a small child, I would see you come home from work and I would start in on your huge hands and cracked and battered feet. I was fascinated by the the seemingly huge channels of lines in your hands and feet, later I would realize that came from years of backbreaking labor and having to endure the elements of the sometime oven like weather of the columbia basin. as a child I would spy on you and you would give me that...