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IN MEMORY OF BILL TiNSLEY
William Houston Tinsley died Monday,
June 12, 2017, at his home on 2185
Jacques Drive in Palm Springs.
He leaves behind his nieces Catherine
Charles of Desert Hot Springs, California
and Virgina Hoge of Pasadena, California.
He also will be missed by his many
friends he has made over the past 30 years
while living in the Palm Springs area.
Born in Covington, VA on February 11,
1925. He lived in an orphanage during
his adolescent years. He went into the
U.S. Military during World War II, where
he served in the U.S. Air Force.
friends during the past 10 years in what
was called the church service, for those
that met there. Politics was a major topic
along with local issues and LBGTQ concerns.
The attached photo of Bill was taken after
World War II. The uniform appears to
be a Navy Uniform of which Bill would
jokingly tell friends he would don various
Military uniforms depending on who he
was intending to meet for a date.
After serving in the military he attended
the University of Colorado. He was
employed by Industrial Indemnity as an
insurance investigator/underwriter in Los
Angeles. He lived in Silver Lake where he
was a landlord of an apartment complex
he owned.
He moved to Palm Springs in 1987 where
he has lived at the same residence until
his death. Bill was known as a kind and
generous man and to all of his friends and
acquaintances and also as a lover of animals
of which he has rescued a number of
dogs during his life in Palm Springs.
The Tool Shed was his Sunday morning
meeting place with many of his closest
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