Bill Ashe, 76, died Friday, April 26, 1996, at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Gainesville.
He was born in Lexsy, Ga., and grew up in Wesley, Ga., until he moved to Jacksonville in 1935. For most of his life he lived in Fort Lauderdale, Orangedale and East Palatka. He was an elder in the Church of Christ. An infantryman in World War II, he was a Purple Heart recipient for injuries sustained in action in the Philippines. Friends will remember him as an entertaining raconteur as well as an accomplished, self-taught musician on the organ, the accordion and the guitar. Although never patented, his many innovative inventions made him a valued employee as a superintendent in the construction and mining industries including RGC Minerals, USA. where he had worked for 12 years.
He is survived by his wife of 56 years, the former Willie Pearl Murphy of Twin City, Ga.; daughters, Retta Ashe of East Palatka, Linda Messina of Orange Park, Beverly Tomasovitch of St. Augustine and Carol Allen of Washington, D.C.; sisters, Velma Youmans of Jacksonville, Sally Mae Barnhill of St. Augustine and Alvera Cason of Palm Valley; 13 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
The funeral will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday at St. Johns Avenue Church of Christ in Palatka with Brothers Melvin Barker and C. L. Overturf Jr. officiating. Burial will follow in Oak Hill East Cemetery.
Johnson-Overturf Funeral Home in Palatka is handling arrangements. (Palatka Daily News Obituary dtd 29 Apr 1996.)
He was born in Lexsy, Ga., and grew up in Wesley, Ga., until he moved to Jacksonville in 1935. For most of his life he lived in Fort Lauderdale, Orangedale and East Palatka. He was an elder in the Church of Christ. An infantryman in World War II, he was a Purple Heart recipient for injuries sustained in action in the Philippines. Friends will remember him as an entertaining raconteur as well as an accomplished, self-taught musician on the organ, the accordion and the guitar. Although never patented, his many innovative inventions made him a valued employee as a superintendent in the construction and mining industries including RGC Minerals, USA. where he had worked for 12 years.
He is survived by his wife of 56 years, the former Willie Pearl Murphy of Twin City, Ga.; daughters, Retta Ashe of East Palatka, Linda Messina of Orange Park, Beverly Tomasovitch of St. Augustine and Carol Allen of Washington, D.C.; sisters, Velma Youmans of Jacksonville, Sally Mae Barnhill of St. Augustine and Alvera Cason of Palm Valley; 13 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
The funeral will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday at St. Johns Avenue Church of Christ in Palatka with Brothers Melvin Barker and C. L. Overturf Jr. officiating. Burial will follow in Oak Hill East Cemetery.
Johnson-Overturf Funeral Home in Palatka is handling arrangements. (Palatka Daily News Obituary dtd 29 Apr 1996.)
Bill Ashe, 76, died Friday, April 26, 1996, at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Gainesville.
He was born in Lexsy, Ga., and grew up in Wesley, Ga., until he moved to Jacksonville in 1935. For most of his life he lived in Fort Lauderdale, Orangedale and East Palatka. He was an elder in the Church of Christ. An infantryman in World War II, he was a Purple Heart recipient for injuries sustained in action in the Philippines. Friends will remember him as an entertaining raconteur as well as an accomplished, self-taught musician on the organ, the accordion and the guitar. Although never patented, his many innovative inventions made him a valued employee as a superintendent in the construction and mining industries including RGC Minerals, USA. where he had worked for 12 years.
He is survived by his wife of 56 years, the former Willie Pearl Murphy of Twin City, Ga.; daughters, Retta Ashe of East Palatka, Linda Messina of Orange Park, Beverly Tomasovitch of St. Augustine and Carol Allen of Washington, D.C.; sisters, Velma Youmans of Jacksonville, Sally Mae Barnhill of St. Augustine and Alvera Cason of Palm Valley; 13 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
The funeral will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday at St. Johns Avenue Church of Christ in Palatka with Brothers Melvin Barker and C. L. Overturf Jr. officiating. Burial will follow in Oak Hill East Cemetery.
Johnson-Overturf Funeral Home in Palatka is handling arrangements. (Palatka Daily News Obituary dtd 29 Apr 1996.)
He was born in Lexsy, Ga., and grew up in Wesley, Ga., until he moved to Jacksonville in 1935. For most of his life he lived in Fort Lauderdale, Orangedale and East Palatka. He was an elder in the Church of Christ. An infantryman in World War II, he was a Purple Heart recipient for injuries sustained in action in the Philippines. Friends will remember him as an entertaining raconteur as well as an accomplished, self-taught musician on the organ, the accordion and the guitar. Although never patented, his many innovative inventions made him a valued employee as a superintendent in the construction and mining industries including RGC Minerals, USA. where he had worked for 12 years.
He is survived by his wife of 56 years, the former Willie Pearl Murphy of Twin City, Ga.; daughters, Retta Ashe of East Palatka, Linda Messina of Orange Park, Beverly Tomasovitch of St. Augustine and Carol Allen of Washington, D.C.; sisters, Velma Youmans of Jacksonville, Sally Mae Barnhill of St. Augustine and Alvera Cason of Palm Valley; 13 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
The funeral will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday at St. Johns Avenue Church of Christ in Palatka with Brothers Melvin Barker and C. L. Overturf Jr. officiating. Burial will follow in Oak Hill East Cemetery.
Johnson-Overturf Funeral Home in Palatka is handling arrangements. (Palatka Daily News Obituary dtd 29 Apr 1996.)
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