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Willard Mumford  |
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Willard George (Bill) Mumford, 77, of Santa Maria, California, died September 28, 2000 at Marian Medical Center in Santa Maria. He was born May 8, 1923, in Council Bluffs, Iowa and graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in 1941. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps, later known as the Air Force, during World War II as a pilot flying supply missions from Burma to China. He received the Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal and silver stars. He attended Hancock College of Aeronautics in Santa Maria in 1943 and later graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as a food chemist. He worked as a food technologist, selling industrial food ingredients, retiring in 1983. Survivors include his wife, Lois Patricia (Bretz); three sons, Willard Jr. of Algonquin, Illinois, Bryan of Santa Barbara, California, and Brett of Decorah, Iowa; a sister, Nancy Clare Dryden, of Philadelphia; a brother, Lloyd, of Owensboro, Kentucky; two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Willard Mumford on the web: |