Bill A Vermilyea

Vermilyea, Bill A. age 72 of Bloomington. Visitation Thursday, July 11 at 5-8 PM at Washburn-McReavy Werness Brothers Chapel, 2300 W Old Shakopee Rd, Bloomington 952-884-8145. Funeral service 2 PM Friday with visitation 1 hour prior at Christ Presbyterian Church, 6901 Normandale Road, Edina. Interment Fort Snelling. Mem. preferred to Urban Homeworks. www.Washburn-McReavy.com William Alfred Vermilyea was born to Alfred and Cora (Krommenhoek) Vermilyea September 30, 1940 in Sioux City, Iowa. After graduating from Central High School Bill joined the Navy Reserves. He was on active duty from 1960 to 1962 and served aboard the USS Princeton, an aircraft carrier which saw duty on the west coast and the Western Pacific. It was while he was stationed in Long Beach he accepted Christ as his personal Savior. After the navy, Bill attended barber college in Sioux City and barbered with his father for 7 years. In 1963, he was united in marriage to Audrey Faye Wesselink and she was the love of his life. He attended Western Iowa Community College and earned a degree in computer science and worked for IBP, Pfizer Genetics, GELCO Leasing, Cenex, Daytons, and GE. In 2002 he started a consulting business in which he was a principle and its CEO. As a family, they moved to Olivia, MN, a company relocation took them to St. Louis, MO and in 1979, moved to Bloomington, MN where they lived until his death. On July 8, 2013, he passed away with his family at his side and today he is in the presence of his risen Lord. Bill was a charter member of Morningside Reformed (Sunny Brook) church in Sioux City, Ia. He was a long time member of Riverside Reformed church in Bloomington, MN., where he and Audrey were youth leaders for many years and were part of a leadership team that led 11 senior high work camps in West Virginia and Tennessee. They started to worship at Christ Presbyterian Church and found a home in the ACTS community. Bill's motto of “Have Hammer, Will Travel” took him to many building projects and a new found venture which he came to love, Urban Home Works. Bill loved the north woods. As a family, they built a cabin on a small lake 200 miles north of the Twin Cities. He loved having his family around him. He loved to play golf and was at best, an average golfer. Fishing with his kids and grand kids was a real treat for him. Bill passed away on July 8, 2013 of Sarcomatoid Mesothelioma, an asbestos related lung cancer that he was exposed to while in dry dock during his Navy Career in 1960. He started with a dry cough in January and was diagnosed in April of this year. Bill will be lovingly remembered by his wife, Audrey; his 2 boys, Mark (Nancy) and Eric (Erin); 4 grandchildren, Kaelin, Brennan, Giovanni, and Sofia; and 2 step grandchildren, Oscar and Zuzu Johnson; a brother, Robert (Elizabeth) Vermilyea of Port Clinton, OH, and a sister, Mary (Wayne) Kolbe of Holiday Island, AR. He was proceeded in death by his parents, Alfred and Cora Vermilyea of Sioux City, IA, a brother and sister-in-law, Hank and Tilly Vermilyea of Bloomington, MN.

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Bill A Vermilyea

July 8, 2013

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