Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries



Willie Wilson Prestidge

WOLFFORTH (Special) - Funeral services for W. W. "Bill" Prestidge, 75, of
Wolfforth will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in the Wolfforth First Baptist Church,
with the Rev. Mark McMillan officiating. 

Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Seagraves Cemetery under
the direction of Resthaven Funeral Home. 

Prestidge died Friday in the University Medical Center following an illness. 

He was born April 6, 1921, in Keechi, and he graduated from the Corsicana State
Home High School. He attended Sam Houston College. He moved from Corsicana to
Lubbock County in 1954. 

He married the former Ruby Moore Billings in 1959 in Fairfield. She died Jan.
14, 1993. He was a member of First Baptist Church in Wolfforth. He was a former
mayor of Wolfforth and City Council member. He was also a former member of the
Masonic Lodge. 

He was a veteran of World War II, serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps. He was
wounded in an air raid over Germany while serving as a tail gunner on a bomber. 

He worked for many years for the Tech Press before he retired. 

Survivors include three sons, Walter, Tommy and Alton Billings, all of
Seagraves; his sister, Esther Mills of Waco; eight grandchildren and 15
great-grandchildren. 

The family suggests memorials to Hospice of Lubbock.

Notes:

TXDI: Prestidge Willie Wilson 03-07-1997 LUBBOCK M