WILLIAM R. "BILL" POWELL, 1930-1990

Funeral/VFW services for Bill Powell, 60, of Richland, will be held at 11 a..m Saturday in the Waynesville Memorial Chapel. Burial with military honors will be in the Francis J. Lynch VFW section of the Waynesville Memorial Park Cemetery.

Mr. Powell, a retired U. S. Army First Sergeant, died at 5:30 a.m. Wednesday, September 26, in the General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital on Fort Leonard Wood.

Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Survivors include his wife, Willa Powell, of the home; two sons, John and Ronald Powell, both of Fayetteville NC; two daughters, Brenda Arvidson of South Carolina and Donna Fay Turner of Fayetteville NC; one stepson, Donald Gander of Texas; one stepdaughter, Katherine Brown of Richland; four brothers; three sisters; 9 grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

A memorial has been established to the United Pentecostal Church of Waynesville Building Fund in memory of Bill Powell.