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William Hugh "Bill" Frazier

30 Jan 1938 – 10 Mar 2016

Birth	30 Jan 1938
Death	10 Mar 2016
Added by	Jynjur on 11 Jul 2024
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/272376719

Bio

Bill passed away March 10, 2016 at the Cheyenne VA Medical Center. He was born in Wheatland, Wyoming on January 30, 1938 to Clifford Elton Frasier and Erma Virginia (Carbis) Calmes. He married Sandra Grace Qualls on February 3, 1957 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Bill served in the US Air Force for 21 years, assigned first to missiles and later as aircraft loadmaster on C-141s. While in the Air Force, he visited 33 countries and flew 81 missions in Vietnam. The most significant moment of his military career was flying Operation Homecoming, a mission to pick up and bring home our POW's from Hanoi, Vietnam. After retiring from the Air Force in 1976, Bill and his family returned to Wyoming where he became an automotive instructor and later assistant training director at Wyoming Technical Institute aka Wyo Tech in Laramie. He retired from WTI in 2000, after 23 years. Bill enjoyed golf, amateur radio and playing the trumpet in the Laramie Municipal and Community Bands. He is proceeded in death by his parents Erma Virginia (Carbis) Calmes and Clifford Elton Frasier, step father Joseph N. Calmes, stepmother Elizabeth Lucille Gorman-Fraiser and brother-in-law Merle Dean Dick. Side Note: Bill's last name was spelled with a "z" instead of an "s" on his birth certificate. It was never changed.

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Family

Parents

• Clifford Elton Frasier 1911–1987
• Erma Virginia Carbis Calmes 1920–2013

Siblings

• Esther May Frasier Dick 1941–2025
• Micheal Thomas "Mike" Calmes 1951–2019

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