Early Life: Pat was born William Woodrow Billingsley on December 10, 1916, at Linton, North Dakota, a son of Norbert and Vera Coon Billingsley, the tenth of nineteen children. The family moved south of Miles City in 1926 and to Lodge Grass about 1932.
Life's Work/Service/Interests: On Sept. 7, 1937, Pat married Wavel Irene Shipley in Hardin, Montana. To that union, two children were born: Evagene and William "Ed". Ed passed away in 2005. Pat was one of the last of a dying breed of the old cowboys. A true rancher and cattle man; he raised some of the best Angus cattle in the area for many years. Husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather, William W. "Pat" Billingsley, on Tuesday, December 6, 2011. He passed away at the Billings Clinic just four days shy of his 95th birthday.
Survived By: Privacy protected. Obituary may have this information, source available below.
Preceded In Death By: His parents and son.
Final Rest: Cremation
Obituary: Billings Gazette | 8 Dec 2011
Bio compiled by: Annie Duckett Hundley
Life's Work/Service/Interests: On Sept. 7, 1937, Pat married Wavel Irene Shipley in Hardin, Montana. To that union, two children were born: Evagene and William "Ed". Ed passed away in 2005. Pat was one of the last of a dying breed of the old cowboys. A true rancher and cattle man; he raised some of the best Angus cattle in the area for many years. Husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather, William W. "Pat" Billingsley, on Tuesday, December 6, 2011. He passed away at the Billings Clinic just four days shy of his 95th birthday.
Survived By: Privacy protected. Obituary may have this information, source available below.
Preceded In Death By: His parents and son.
Final Rest: Cremation
Obituary: Billings Gazette | 8 Dec 2011
Bio compiled by: Annie Duckett Hundley
Early Life: Pat was born William Woodrow Billingsley on December 10, 1916, at Linton, North Dakota, a son of Norbert and Vera Coon Billingsley, the tenth of nineteen children. The family moved south of Miles City in 1926 and to Lodge Grass about 1932.
Life's Work/Service/Interests: On Sept. 7, 1937, Pat married Wavel Irene Shipley in Hardin, Montana. To that union, two children were born: Evagene and William "Ed". Ed passed away in 2005. Pat was one of the last of a dying breed of the old cowboys. A true rancher and cattle man; he raised some of the best Angus cattle in the area for many years. Husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather, William W. "Pat" Billingsley, on Tuesday, December 6, 2011. He passed away at the Billings Clinic just four days shy of his 95th birthday.
Survived By: Privacy protected. Obituary may have this information, source available below.
Preceded In Death By: His parents and son.
Final Rest: Cremation
Obituary: Billings Gazette | 8 Dec 2011
Bio compiled by: Annie Duckett Hundley
Life's Work/Service/Interests: On Sept. 7, 1937, Pat married Wavel Irene Shipley in Hardin, Montana. To that union, two children were born: Evagene and William "Ed". Ed passed away in 2005. Pat was one of the last of a dying breed of the old cowboys. A true rancher and cattle man; he raised some of the best Angus cattle in the area for many years. Husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather, William W. "Pat" Billingsley, on Tuesday, December 6, 2011. He passed away at the Billings Clinic just four days shy of his 95th birthday.
Survived By: Privacy protected. Obituary may have this information, source available below.
Preceded In Death By: His parents and son.
Final Rest: Cremation
Obituary: Billings Gazette | 8 Dec 2011
Bio compiled by: Annie Duckett Hundley
Gravesite Details
Inurnment to follow in the Joliet Cemetery. Part of Pat's ashes were scattered on the ranch at Pryor per his wishes, the balance will be interred with wife, Wavel.
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