William Wesley Haverstock, 92

William Wesley Haverstock, 92, died Nov. 4, 2010, peacefully at home in Whitefish, surrounded by family. He was preceded in death by wife, Myrtle, of 56 years; parents; and sister and brother. William Bill was born and grew up in Minneapolis, the youngest of three children born to William Wesley Haverstock Sr., and Alice Minard (Cleaveland) Haverstock. He was a graduate of Macalester College, with degrees also from the University of California at Berkeley and Stanford University. He served in the United States Army during World War II, and the Reserve Corps. He was a university librarian for 28 years, on the staff of Humboldt State University, Calif., and California State University at Chico, and enjoyed job exchanges at Uxbridge College, London and Plattsburg State University of New York. He continued his love of books until his death. After retiring in 1980, he moved to Seattle where he became a certified braillist for the Washington Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. In 1991, he moved to Northern Virginia to be closer to his daughter; his wife Myrtle died in 2000. Bill remarried to Ann Toles Mendum in 2003. Understanding that his health was declining, in 2009 he moved to Montana to be close to his family again. Much loved and greatly missed, he is survived by wife, Ann, of Annandale, Va.; daughter, Miriam Alice Haverstock and David Whitney, grandson, Lowell William and Dana Whitney, and great-grandchildren, Alison, Carter and Maya Whitney, all of Kalispell; nieces, nephews and other family. Bill donated his body to medical education in which he strongly believed; his ashes, when returned, will be buried by Myrtle s in the memorial garden at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington, Va., with a private service at that time. Memorials are preferred to Doctors Without Borders, or to a charity of choice.