- Date Of Birth: May 18, 1928
- Date Of Death: January 28, 2022
- State: North Carolina
William Ellis Dagenhart was born on a bright spring day, May 18, 1928, the fourth child of Ollie Stikeleather Dagenhart and Clyde Sylvester Dagenhart Sr. He attended Celeste Henkel School with his seven siblings. He did not go to war with his older brothers, Coleman and Clyde Jr. but stayed home to help around the farm and with the younger children.
He was married on September 5, 1948, to Avin Leckie Dagenhart which means they were together for almost 74 years! They lived in a house he and his Daddy built on the family farm on Dagenhart Farm Road for almost all of that time. They have one son, Michael Ray Dagenhart who is married to Teresa Long Dagenhart and one granddaughter, Michelle Dagenhart. They also have two little great-grandsons, Ashton Michael Hurt and Jaxon Alexander Hurt. They all live in Haymarket, Virginia.
Preceding him in death were his parents and five of the eight siblings and their spouses, Coleman Dagenhart and Henny Pierce Dagenhart, Dorothy Dagenhart Waugh and Ronald Waugh, Clyde Jr Dagenhart and Marie Gentle Dagenhart, Betty Dagenhart Josey and Roy Josey, and Billy Dagenhart. Also preceding him in death were Kay’s husband, Arnold Edwards, Wayne’s wife Bernice Beckham Dagenhart, niece Sherry Mason, and nephew, Tony Dagenhart.
