In Memory
St. George Utah - William Thomas (Bill) Whitlow, 75 passed away January 4th, 2018 in St. George, Utah. He was born August 24th, 1942 in San Jose, California to Thomas Walter Perski and Arlene Lowena Mangin. He married Judy Hill June 30th, 1962 in Napa Ca.
Bill was raised in California. He attended elementary school in San Jose and attended Ridgeview Junior High and Napa Senior High School in Napa, class of 1960. He also lived in Eureka, Salinas, Benicia, Fresno and Cameron Park in California, moving to St. George in 1996.
From an early age he loved motorcycles and owned at least one most his life. He was involved in amateur motorcycle racing in California and took great pride in the trophies he won. He was partial to Harley Davidson's and rode until his health prevented him from doing so.
Bill worked most of his life in the automobile industry, from motorcycle mechanic, to car salesman to managing parts departments to managing rental agencies.
Bill loved camping at Fish Lake, his various dogs and making smoking hot chili. He enjoyed target shooting at the shooting ranges nearby.
He is survived by his wife Judy, daughter Leslie and son-in-law Sam, grand-daughter Liz. He is also survived by his brother Stan and sister-in-law Grace; sisters-in-law Susan Hurt, Katy Bellinger and Diane Hill; brothers-in-law Tom Hurt and Charles Hill, as well as numerous nieces and nephews.
Bill was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Special thanks to Dixie Regional Medical Center, especially Ashlee and Kendra for their caring service.
A memorial service will be held in the coming weeks. Condolences may be shared at mcmillanmortuary.com.
Published in the Spectrum & Daily News on Jan. 14, 2018.
Jim Davis
I have two stories I can tell about hanging out with Bill but can only tell one on this venue. One night we were riding around in his white 1947 Ford sedan down on Soscol Ave. I remember we had to push the car to get it started. The police pulled us over and searched the car. They found some tools that they said were stolen from Mario Gaudino's Shell station on Lincoln Ave. It was across the Street from Fosters Freeze. Bill told them from the beginning that the tools were not stolen and were his. Anyway, they took us to jail. We were in a holding cell for a couple of hours. Bill's mother knew Mario and I think he looked at the tools and said they weren't his. We were released. My parents never knew that I went to jail. The two or three times I saw Bill after graduation we always laughed about our criminal past.