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View a eulogy for William Stokes McDaniel, USMA '59, who passed away on May 1, 2016.

William Stokes McDaniel

West Point, 1959

Be Thou At Peace

Posted by Eric Grapner on June 8, 2016:

Thank you Billy for opening your home for countless dinners, spend-the-nights, weekends and even week long stays. You made me feel like one of your kids, like Barclay had a brother.

The family and home Billy and Martha made is one of the very most special places and times I will always carry in my heart. Billy was always so consistently calm, nurturing, wise, even-keeled and gosh-dang smart, guiding, enlightened, hardworking, ethical, caring, generous and many more wonderful traits anyone would be proud to know someone with any one of them, and all these in one person, WOW!

I will forever look back on my time spent with your family you and Martha worked so hard to create and miss them, and live my life better because of them and provide a home for my children aspiring to be like you.

Billy, I know you're in heaven working on projects you love, hanging out with Martha and your friends, because you deserve it 10,000 times over.

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