WILLIAM "BILL" EDWARD ARNOLD, SON OF WILLIAM OTIS ARNOLD, SR. AND ELIZABETH IRENE (HARPER) ARNOLD SUMMERFIELD. BILL GRADUATED IN 1953 FROM ELKVIEW HIGH SCHOOL AND SHORTLY THERE AFTER JOINED THE U.S. MARINES. "ONCE A MARINE, ALWAYS A MARINE" AND HOW TRUE THIS WAS WITH BILL. HE WAS A TALENTED SONG WRITER AND MUSICIAN WHO HOSTED WEEK LONG CAMPING AND SONG FESTS ON HIS FARM AT FRAMETOWN, BRAXTON COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA. AN AVID GUN COLLECTOR, GUNSMITH AND CIVIL WAR BUFF. BILL NEVER LACKED FOR FRIENDS, FOR HIS HOUSE WAS ALWAYS FULL; HE WAS JOVIAL AND SO KIND TO OTHERS. HE LOVED FISHING, ESPECIALLY FOR MUSKY IN THE WATERS OF THE ELK RIVER AND WHEN HE WENT DEER HUNTING YOU COULD ALWAYS COUNT ON VINISON FOR DINNER - HE NEVER MISSED A SHOT! SUCH A HORRIBLE DEATH - BY A DRUNK DRIVING TEENAGER WHO TOOK A DAD, A SON, AND A BROTHER FROM ALL OF US. THOSE WHO KNEW BILL ARNOLD NEVER FORGOT HIM. HE WAS ONE OF A KIND.
WILLIAM "BILL" EDWARD ARNOLD, SON OF WILLIAM OTIS ARNOLD, SR. AND ELIZABETH IRENE (HARPER) ARNOLD SUMMERFIELD. BILL GRADUATED IN 1953 FROM ELKVIEW HIGH SCHOOL AND SHORTLY THERE AFTER JOINED THE U.S. MARINES. "ONCE A MARINE, ALWAYS A MARINE" AND HOW TRUE THIS WAS WITH BILL. HE WAS A TALENTED SONG WRITER AND MUSICIAN WHO HOSTED WEEK LONG CAMPING AND SONG FESTS ON HIS FARM AT FRAMETOWN, BRAXTON COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA. AN AVID GUN COLLECTOR, GUNSMITH AND CIVIL WAR BUFF. BILL NEVER LACKED FOR FRIENDS, FOR HIS HOUSE WAS ALWAYS FULL; HE WAS JOVIAL AND SO KIND TO OTHERS. HE LOVED FISHING, ESPECIALLY FOR MUSKY IN THE WATERS OF THE ELK RIVER AND WHEN HE WENT DEER HUNTING YOU COULD ALWAYS COUNT ON VINISON FOR DINNER - HE NEVER MISSED A SHOT! SUCH A HORRIBLE DEATH - BY A DRUNK DRIVING TEENAGER WHO TOOK A DAD, A SON, AND A BROTHER FROM ALL OF US. THOSE WHO KNEW BILL ARNOLD NEVER FORGOT HIM. HE WAS ONE OF A KIND.
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