Billie Ross Yerion, son of Ross and Ruth (Moffatt) Yerion, was born May 30, 1927, at home in Chandlerville. He was called home by his Father in Heaven, Feb. 22, 2016.
In the early 1930s the family moved to east of Winchester, where Ross was engaged in farming and Ruth was a homemaker. One brother, Dale Yerion, preceded him in death, in 1998.
He attended a one room school house then attended Winchester High school, graduating in May 1944 at the age of 17. The family then built a home on a farm north of Manchester and lived there till 1965.
Enlisted in the U.S. Navy in May 1945 and served in the Pacific Theater of Operations on the USS Allandale, APA 127. He participated in the invasion of Japan and discharged in 1946. Returning to Winchester, he worked in farming until he was employed by the Scott County Highway Department. He joined the Army Reserves with a group out of Winchester and was sent to Germany during the Korean War. There he met Lucia Schlegal and was married in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Aug. 4, 1952. She survives with their son, Mike, an only child, Charlene, Mike's wife, and their two children, of O'Fallon, Missouri.
Billie worked for the county highway department his entire career, 34 years, retiring in January 1988. (He worked briefly, four years, for Freesen Brothers in the early 1960s, proud of the work that he did on the Kincaid and Springfield power plants). He was involved in many of the early county road construction projects, working as a surveyor and resident engineer on such roads as Naples Lane, the Alsey-Glasgow road, the Alsey-Manchester Road, many of the county bridges, as well as summer oil chip and seal maintenance projects. He served many years in the courthouse preparing road plans for roads that were built and some that are still waiting to be built. He was an operator of equipment as well, and could be seen plowing snow every winter in the county's motor grader.
He served at various times as a Glasgow Village Trustee and helped at the Glasgow Burgoo, usually after the event, to tear down and clean up. He is the grandfather of two children.
As a hobby, he liked tinkering on his car and truck and working in his shop on various projects and woodworkings. He enjoyed fishing and rabbit hunting, along with his beagles, in earlier days. Billie had a great many friends, all World War II veterans and enjoyed traveling to sales in his retirement years. As an effort to keep busy, after retirement, he assisted road districts as an operator and area farmers, plowing river bottom fields through the night time hours. He enjoyed traveling after retirement, journeying out to Yellowstone, Colorado, the Black Hills, down to New Mexico, the southeastern United States, and the New Jersey area. Having grown up during the depression years, prior to TV, he became a voracious reader of books, especially those of World War II and westerns. His home is packed with books in his library. He enjoyed visiting early Civil War battle sites. He lived in Glasgow with his family from 1957 until declining health forced him into the Scott County Nursing Center in August of 2015. At that stage of life, Billie enjoyed riding the roads of Scott County and reminiscing about the old days of bridge and road building, in the late 1940s and 1950s.
Burial will be in Glasgow Cemetery where military honors will be conducted.
Published in Jacksonville Journal-Courier on Feb. 24, 2016.
In the early 1930s the family moved to east of Winchester, where Ross was engaged in farming and Ruth was a homemaker. One brother, Dale Yerion, preceded him in death, in 1998.
He attended a one room school house then attended Winchester High school, graduating in May 1944 at the age of 17. The family then built a home on a farm north of Manchester and lived there till 1965.
Enlisted in the U.S. Navy in May 1945 and served in the Pacific Theater of Operations on the USS Allandale, APA 127. He participated in the invasion of Japan and discharged in 1946. Returning to Winchester, he worked in farming until he was employed by the Scott County Highway Department. He joined the Army Reserves with a group out of Winchester and was sent to Germany during the Korean War. There he met Lucia Schlegal and was married in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Aug. 4, 1952. She survives with their son, Mike, an only child, Charlene, Mike's wife, and their two children, of O'Fallon, Missouri.
Billie worked for the county highway department his entire career, 34 years, retiring in January 1988. (He worked briefly, four years, for Freesen Brothers in the early 1960s, proud of the work that he did on the Kincaid and Springfield power plants). He was involved in many of the early county road construction projects, working as a surveyor and resident engineer on such roads as Naples Lane, the Alsey-Glasgow road, the Alsey-Manchester Road, many of the county bridges, as well as summer oil chip and seal maintenance projects. He served many years in the courthouse preparing road plans for roads that were built and some that are still waiting to be built. He was an operator of equipment as well, and could be seen plowing snow every winter in the county's motor grader.
He served at various times as a Glasgow Village Trustee and helped at the Glasgow Burgoo, usually after the event, to tear down and clean up. He is the grandfather of two children.
As a hobby, he liked tinkering on his car and truck and working in his shop on various projects and woodworkings. He enjoyed fishing and rabbit hunting, along with his beagles, in earlier days. Billie had a great many friends, all World War II veterans and enjoyed traveling to sales in his retirement years. As an effort to keep busy, after retirement, he assisted road districts as an operator and area farmers, plowing river bottom fields through the night time hours. He enjoyed traveling after retirement, journeying out to Yellowstone, Colorado, the Black Hills, down to New Mexico, the southeastern United States, and the New Jersey area. Having grown up during the depression years, prior to TV, he became a voracious reader of books, especially those of World War II and westerns. His home is packed with books in his library. He enjoyed visiting early Civil War battle sites. He lived in Glasgow with his family from 1957 until declining health forced him into the Scott County Nursing Center in August of 2015. At that stage of life, Billie enjoyed riding the roads of Scott County and reminiscing about the old days of bridge and road building, in the late 1940s and 1950s.
Burial will be in Glasgow Cemetery where military honors will be conducted.
Published in Jacksonville Journal-Courier on Feb. 24, 2016.
Billie Ross Yerion, son of Ross and Ruth (Moffatt) Yerion, was born May 30, 1927, at home in Chandlerville. He was called home by his Father in Heaven, Feb. 22, 2016.
In the early 1930s the family moved to east of Winchester, where Ross was engaged in farming and Ruth was a homemaker. One brother, Dale Yerion, preceded him in death, in 1998.
He attended a one room school house then attended Winchester High school, graduating in May 1944 at the age of 17. The family then built a home on a farm north of Manchester and lived there till 1965.
Enlisted in the U.S. Navy in May 1945 and served in the Pacific Theater of Operations on the USS Allandale, APA 127. He participated in the invasion of Japan and discharged in 1946. Returning to Winchester, he worked in farming until he was employed by the Scott County Highway Department. He joined the Army Reserves with a group out of Winchester and was sent to Germany during the Korean War. There he met Lucia Schlegal and was married in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Aug. 4, 1952. She survives with their son, Mike, an only child, Charlene, Mike's wife, and their two children, of O'Fallon, Missouri.
Billie worked for the county highway department his entire career, 34 years, retiring in January 1988. (He worked briefly, four years, for Freesen Brothers in the early 1960s, proud of the work that he did on the Kincaid and Springfield power plants). He was involved in many of the early county road construction projects, working as a surveyor and resident engineer on such roads as Naples Lane, the Alsey-Glasgow road, the Alsey-Manchester Road, many of the county bridges, as well as summer oil chip and seal maintenance projects. He served many years in the courthouse preparing road plans for roads that were built and some that are still waiting to be built. He was an operator of equipment as well, and could be seen plowing snow every winter in the county's motor grader.
He served at various times as a Glasgow Village Trustee and helped at the Glasgow Burgoo, usually after the event, to tear down and clean up. He is the grandfather of two children.
As a hobby, he liked tinkering on his car and truck and working in his shop on various projects and woodworkings. He enjoyed fishing and rabbit hunting, along with his beagles, in earlier days. Billie had a great many friends, all World War II veterans and enjoyed traveling to sales in his retirement years. As an effort to keep busy, after retirement, he assisted road districts as an operator and area farmers, plowing river bottom fields through the night time hours. He enjoyed traveling after retirement, journeying out to Yellowstone, Colorado, the Black Hills, down to New Mexico, the southeastern United States, and the New Jersey area. Having grown up during the depression years, prior to TV, he became a voracious reader of books, especially those of World War II and westerns. His home is packed with books in his library. He enjoyed visiting early Civil War battle sites. He lived in Glasgow with his family from 1957 until declining health forced him into the Scott County Nursing Center in August of 2015. At that stage of life, Billie enjoyed riding the roads of Scott County and reminiscing about the old days of bridge and road building, in the late 1940s and 1950s.
Burial will be in Glasgow Cemetery where military honors will be conducted.
Published in Jacksonville Journal-Courier on Feb. 24, 2016.
In the early 1930s the family moved to east of Winchester, where Ross was engaged in farming and Ruth was a homemaker. One brother, Dale Yerion, preceded him in death, in 1998.
He attended a one room school house then attended Winchester High school, graduating in May 1944 at the age of 17. The family then built a home on a farm north of Manchester and lived there till 1965.
Enlisted in the U.S. Navy in May 1945 and served in the Pacific Theater of Operations on the USS Allandale, APA 127. He participated in the invasion of Japan and discharged in 1946. Returning to Winchester, he worked in farming until he was employed by the Scott County Highway Department. He joined the Army Reserves with a group out of Winchester and was sent to Germany during the Korean War. There he met Lucia Schlegal and was married in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Aug. 4, 1952. She survives with their son, Mike, an only child, Charlene, Mike's wife, and their two children, of O'Fallon, Missouri.
Billie worked for the county highway department his entire career, 34 years, retiring in January 1988. (He worked briefly, four years, for Freesen Brothers in the early 1960s, proud of the work that he did on the Kincaid and Springfield power plants). He was involved in many of the early county road construction projects, working as a surveyor and resident engineer on such roads as Naples Lane, the Alsey-Glasgow road, the Alsey-Manchester Road, many of the county bridges, as well as summer oil chip and seal maintenance projects. He served many years in the courthouse preparing road plans for roads that were built and some that are still waiting to be built. He was an operator of equipment as well, and could be seen plowing snow every winter in the county's motor grader.
He served at various times as a Glasgow Village Trustee and helped at the Glasgow Burgoo, usually after the event, to tear down and clean up. He is the grandfather of two children.
As a hobby, he liked tinkering on his car and truck and working in his shop on various projects and woodworkings. He enjoyed fishing and rabbit hunting, along with his beagles, in earlier days. Billie had a great many friends, all World War II veterans and enjoyed traveling to sales in his retirement years. As an effort to keep busy, after retirement, he assisted road districts as an operator and area farmers, plowing river bottom fields through the night time hours. He enjoyed traveling after retirement, journeying out to Yellowstone, Colorado, the Black Hills, down to New Mexico, the southeastern United States, and the New Jersey area. Having grown up during the depression years, prior to TV, he became a voracious reader of books, especially those of World War II and westerns. His home is packed with books in his library. He enjoyed visiting early Civil War battle sites. He lived in Glasgow with his family from 1957 until declining health forced him into the Scott County Nursing Center in August of 2015. At that stage of life, Billie enjoyed riding the roads of Scott County and reminiscing about the old days of bridge and road building, in the late 1940s and 1950s.
Burial will be in Glasgow Cemetery where military honors will be conducted.
Published in Jacksonville Journal-Courier on Feb. 24, 2016.
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