- Date Of Birth: January 14, 1934
- Date Of Death: August 14, 2018
- State: Idaho
On Friday, August 14, 2018, Billy Dean Stoddard, beloved husband and father of three, passed away of natural causes in his home at the age of 84.
Billy was born on January 14, 1934, in Nebraska City, Nebraska, to Roy and Mable Stoddard. He attended country grade school in Lincoln until they moved to Portland, Oregon. Billy then attended Lincoln High School until he graduated in the last class of the “Old Lincoln High,” before the building permanently became a part of Portland State University at Lincoln Hall.
Upon graduating from high school in 1953, Billy joined the Army and was stationed in France. He began a written courtship with his high school sweetheart and love of his life, Louise Marie Dopita. He proposed by mail, and she sailed over France where they married in Bar Le Duc, France, on December 19, 1953.
They continued in France, where they had their first daughter, Deborah, who was born in an Army hospital in Verdun, France in 1955.
