William Henry 'Bill' Sloniger was the 2nd child born to Roy and Dale Sloniger on Friday, 3 Mar 1922, at home in Gabriella, FL. He learned to be a mechanic while he was in high school and upon graduation from Winter Park High School, in June of 1940, Bill purchased, opened and ran his own filling station in Oviedo. It has been said by several family members alive and now gone from our midst that "everyone that met Bill loved him."
When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on 7 Dec 1941 and the United States entered WWII, Bill wanted to be counted among those men (and women) who went to fight for his country. It was during the military physical that it was discovered that Bill had stomach cancer and he was immediately disqualified from serving. Not only was he given what amounted to a death sentence in the offing but he was devastated that he could not "do his part" in the battle for democracy against tyranny. Bill put on a brave face and kept on working to do what he could on the home front.
By the 1945 FL State Census he was working as a mechanic on the Air Force Training Center in Orlando, having sold his Oviedo filling station, despite the advancing cancer and the unbearable pain that eventually would become non-stop up until the end of his life on Thursday, 24 Aug 1950, at the age of 28. His younger brother, Ray, remained eternally grateful to his own younger brother, Bill (11 years his senior), for teaching him [Ray] to be a mechanic from a young age.
Uncle Bill was one of the truly good people that, unfortunately, seem destined to die young because, perhaps, he was among those too good for this earth and God needed him in Heaven to be with Him.
When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on 7 Dec 1941 and the United States entered WWII, Bill wanted to be counted among those men (and women) who went to fight for his country. It was during the military physical that it was discovered that Bill had stomach cancer and he was immediately disqualified from serving. Not only was he given what amounted to a death sentence in the offing but he was devastated that he could not "do his part" in the battle for democracy against tyranny. Bill put on a brave face and kept on working to do what he could on the home front.
By the 1945 FL State Census he was working as a mechanic on the Air Force Training Center in Orlando, having sold his Oviedo filling station, despite the advancing cancer and the unbearable pain that eventually would become non-stop up until the end of his life on Thursday, 24 Aug 1950, at the age of 28. His younger brother, Ray, remained eternally grateful to his own younger brother, Bill (11 years his senior), for teaching him [Ray] to be a mechanic from a young age.
Uncle Bill was one of the truly good people that, unfortunately, seem destined to die young because, perhaps, he was among those too good for this earth and God needed him in Heaven to be with Him.
William Henry 'Bill' Sloniger was the 2nd child born to Roy and Dale Sloniger on Friday, 3 Mar 1922, at home in Gabriella, FL. He learned to be a mechanic while he was in high school and upon graduation from Winter Park High School, in June of 1940, Bill purchased, opened and ran his own filling station in Oviedo. It has been said by several family members alive and now gone from our midst that "everyone that met Bill loved him."
When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on 7 Dec 1941 and the United States entered WWII, Bill wanted to be counted among those men (and women) who went to fight for his country. It was during the military physical that it was discovered that Bill had stomach cancer and he was immediately disqualified from serving. Not only was he given what amounted to a death sentence in the offing but he was devastated that he could not "do his part" in the battle for democracy against tyranny. Bill put on a brave face and kept on working to do what he could on the home front.
By the 1945 FL State Census he was working as a mechanic on the Air Force Training Center in Orlando, having sold his Oviedo filling station, despite the advancing cancer and the unbearable pain that eventually would become non-stop up until the end of his life on Thursday, 24 Aug 1950, at the age of 28. His younger brother, Ray, remained eternally grateful to his own younger brother, Bill (11 years his senior), for teaching him [Ray] to be a mechanic from a young age.
Uncle Bill was one of the truly good people that, unfortunately, seem destined to die young because, perhaps, he was among those too good for this earth and God needed him in Heaven to be with Him.
When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on 7 Dec 1941 and the United States entered WWII, Bill wanted to be counted among those men (and women) who went to fight for his country. It was during the military physical that it was discovered that Bill had stomach cancer and he was immediately disqualified from serving. Not only was he given what amounted to a death sentence in the offing but he was devastated that he could not "do his part" in the battle for democracy against tyranny. Bill put on a brave face and kept on working to do what he could on the home front.
By the 1945 FL State Census he was working as a mechanic on the Air Force Training Center in Orlando, having sold his Oviedo filling station, despite the advancing cancer and the unbearable pain that eventually would become non-stop up until the end of his life on Thursday, 24 Aug 1950, at the age of 28. His younger brother, Ray, remained eternally grateful to his own younger brother, Bill (11 years his senior), for teaching him [Ray] to be a mechanic from a young age.
Uncle Bill was one of the truly good people that, unfortunately, seem destined to die young because, perhaps, he was among those too good for this earth and God needed him in Heaven to be with Him.
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