- Date Of Birth: November 9, 1928
- Date Of Death: September 22, 2016
- State: California
Bill was born on a farm in Altus, Oklahoma, the eleventh and youngest child of James and Mattie Zumbro. He moved to the San Francisco Bay area with his parents in his early teens. At 17 years old, he joined the Merchant Marines and sailed around the world. In 1948 he came to Taft to be with his parents and met his wife-to-be, Edna Mae Smith, at Abram’s Drive-in where she worked as a carhop. Bill was drafted into the Army in 1951 and served 13 months in Korea. Before shipping out to Korea he and Edna were married.
