Thursday, November 8, 2018
Thank God for this gentle, humble, brilliant, friendly, loving, kind, sharing, teaching, Christian, giant of a man with a huge heart who saw in my then boyfriend and soon to be husband his potential and intellect and goodness! Bill hired Cliff into TRW as a very young engineer right out of college with a still somewhat rebellious hippie streak in him and then hired him back into TRW again about 9 years later after a 2 year stint at Mitre. Bill was like a father to Cliff, patiently mentoring him for decades, professionally and personally, and we were privileged and blessed to be friends with Bill and Jo for 45 years !!! Our lives and our family would not be what they are without Bill and Jo! The news of Bill slipping away from all of us here on earth and I know getting his eminently deserved shining wings literally took my breath away and knocked me into the wall. We love you both forever! - Cliff and Jody Nelson
