WILLIAM ROBERT "BILL" MCWHORTER

Bill was my uncle, only ten years older than myself. While he served in Viet Nam I plastered my walls with his art. I'm sure the pin-holes in the corners cost him thousands of dollars.

He was a friendly and fun uncle who tortured me gloriously.

He and my brother are painfully missed.

To Sam and your community and family,

I know Sam from a poetry class at HSU and didn't meet Bill. I was happy she and Bill found each other and that they followed their hearts back to WV.

Please accept my deepest condolences and love. I hope to see Sam and her family when she comes back to Humboldt County.

We didn't know Bill personally but of him, through Sam. My wife Meredith and I were friends with our 'star' Sam from the Eatery in Trinidad, and we were so happy that she found such a wonderful man. We lost touch after their move to Elkins but remembered them occasionally throughout the years. Meredith is recently passed so for both of us, ... I send our love and respects to Sam and the children with good wishes to each of you as you continue on your path together with good memories of...

Bill and I were close friends. He and I were roommates for nearly two years in the early seventies in Eureka. Such a sweet guy. We had a lot of fun. He was very easy to talk to.

When I moved away south, he gifted me with a beautiful oil (I had told him it was one of my favorites). He painted a lot out of our apartment on 5th and A. I remember chatting with him as he stretched canvases and applied the gesso. I still have them, too.

Sad news to hear he passed. Good memories.

Bill loved the northern California landscapes, as this was where his pastels and oils first started to show those beautiful clouds, he continued to paint landscapes that were reminiscent of the beautiful skies there as well as blending into scenes of West Virginia. he touched many lives with his gentle spirit and his skills brought art into the schools here in WV. Our children and I plan to come to Humboldt and share some of his ashes with the earth and sky of his long time home.
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One of my most admired and treasured paintings is one I bought long ago from Atley Gallery in Old Town Eureka when Bill McWhorter was showing there. It's called Pacific Nocturne - a beautiful ocean landscape just after sundown when a soft yellow glow lingers on the horizon, caught in layers of shape shifting shades of Blue. Cloud Sky Water Sand. It's a stunning painting and stops everyone in their tracks when coming into the room. I think it is Clam Beach. I've seen the sky this way many...