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William Holmes Call “Bill”, was called back home the morning of 29 Sept. 2009 at his home under the tender care of his wife Virginia and Hospice Specialists.He was the only child of William Cornell Call and Nathell Holmes. Born 13 July 1922 in Brigham City, Utah. Bill grew up in Brigham City and graduated from Box Elder High School. He later received an Associates degree. Bill married Barbara Lee in Salt Lake City in Nov. 1942. Shortly after their marriage Bill was called to serve his country in the US Army Air Corps in Italy, during World War II. After World War II Bill was recalled for service in the Air Force during the Korean War. Bill and Barbara had one son, William Lee Call. Barbara passed away in 1966. Bill married Winnifred Kennard Remington in 1967. They served a mission in Texas. They returned to Salt Lake City and were active in Temple service until Winnifred passed away in 2003. Bill married Virginia Bean in 2005. Bill was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving as Bishops counselor, Bishop, High Councilman-multiple times. He was passionate in his service to the Lord. Bill was an avid genealogist, and enjoyed gardening. Bill retired form the Newspaper Agency Corp. where he worked many years as a Linotype Operator, and served in the Union leadership. Bill is survived by his wife, Virginia, a son W. Lee Call (Mary), stepchildren David Remington (Shirlene), Doug Remington (Bonnie), Don Remington (Christine), James Bean (Chris), Audrey Allison (James), Karen Bean (James), Evelyn Homer Sheehan (James), 34 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren. Preceded in death by parents, wives Barbara and Winnifred. Funeral services will be held Friday 2 Oct. 2009, 10 a.m., at Larkin Mortuary, 260 East South Temple where a viewing will be held Thursday from 6-8 p.m. and Friday one hour prior to services. Interment: Brigham City Cemetery at 1 p.m. Online condolences to www.larkincares.com
The Kennard family had a small choir that sang for the services. Uncle Bill was remembered as a person who cared about others and who was frequently “guilty” of helping others, without anyone else knowing it. He was a person who liked to joke about himself, saying, “I am in pretty good shape, considering the shape I’m in.” He will be missed by his family and good friends.

We moved back in today among stacks of boxes and many items out of place for the moment. We are very thankful to be back in our own place and to have the conveniences we are blessed to have. It has been three months since we have been able to live here. We still hope to persuade the insurance company that they should re-imburse us for more of the repair and renewal expenses than the adjuster feels we are entitled to. We had considered changing from Farmers Insurance to our auto provider, State Farm, and since this issue we have wished we had because of the way we have been treated by our adjuster. Hopefully a discussion with the agent will take place and we can get a few more things straightened out. Thanks to everyone for your help and time as we went through the renovation and repair process to get things ready.

We still have a few things to move around to make room so we can move in. There are many things in the bedrooms, especially Kristen’s but maybe we can get that taken care of Monday. I will keep you posted.
Aunt Carma is back in the hospital with pneumonia and other complications. Please pray for her and her family.

We have finally passed a major milestone in the remodeling of our home with the completion of the living room today.

Last night Uncle Tom and Aunt Janice came over the help Mom and Kristen paint while I was at choir rehearsal. Thank you Tom and Janice for your help! Mom and I came early to finish up and touch up a few things, and Van Farnworth came over to help me move the larger furniture out of the living room. The carpet man came on time at 9am. He worked until about noon and was done. We then began planning a few changes to the way things are arranged. Quentin came from a funeral just in time to help move the piano into place, and stayed to help move other things in for us. There are still a few little details to finish including cutting in the perimeter of the living room windows after repairing the slight damage to the plaster from moisture and the weather. These little things need to be taken care of before we can hang the curtains, but otherwise it is finished. As Quentin and I were moving in the couch and love seat we found that most of the springs in these two were broken. We are going to try and repair them (the sectional in the Family Room also has broken springs) so they will be more fresh and “like new” in the near future. We hope to move in TODAY (Saturday) so we are here Sunday morning! Hurrah! It will be nice having our own place again. It has been three months since we were able to live here. What do you think of the new color instead of the same off-white everywhere? Mom chose this green color but thinks it is too dark, but it does look very nice. Grandma Hill has been so accomdating to us and we are very grateful that she made some space for us while we have been working on this project. The project is not completed, but the upstairs is almost finished. Then we have the basement areas to focus on as we get ready for Devin and Emily’s visit (“wahoo”, as Emily would say)! Thank you for your encouragement and help. Quentin came along today just in time to help us get the piano back in place along with many other things.