William "Bill" Wurster

WILLIAM “BILL” WURSTER, BORN APRIL 1932, IN ANTIOCH, ILLINOIS; PARENTS, GEORGE AND MARIE WURSTER, AND SISTER, MARIE (WURSTER) STERBENZ, WERE BORN IN NEUHAUSEN, GERMANY. THEY CAME TO AMERICA IN 1921 AND LIVED IN WOODBINE, ILLINOIS, UNTIL MARCH OF 1931 WHEN THEY MOVED TO ANTIOCH, ILLINOIS.

BILL, THE YOUNGEST OF THE CHILDERN ATTENDED EMMONS GRADE SCHOOL IN ANTIOCH, ILLINOIS, AND LATER LAKE VILLA GRADE SCHOOL IN LAKE VILLA, ILLINOIS. THE WURSTER’S MOVED TO LAKE VILLA IN MARCH OF 1943. BILL DEVELOPED HIS LOVE FOR TRACTORS WHILE HELPING WITH THE FAMILY FARM

HIS PARENTS, GEORGE AND MARIE, SISTER MARIE, AND BROTHER CARL WURSTER AND HIS DAUGHTER CHERYL, PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS SISTER, CLARA STASIOR, OF GURNEE, ILLINOIS, MANY LOVED NIECES AND NEPHEWS IN THE CHICAGO AREA, 3 CHILDREN, DAUGHTERS PAM, DANNA AND HER HUSBAND MIKE, SON DALE AND HIS WIFE CINDY, AND SON-IN-LAW DUNCAN. 4 GRANDCHILDREN CANDICE, JEFF, SAMANTHA, DOUGLAS, AND 4 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN LILLY, AADEN, COREY, AND BLOSSOM LILLY AND HIS WIFE MARY

BILL JOINED THE ARMY AND SERVED IN THE KOREAN WAR. RETURNING TO START HIS LIFE LONG CAREER IN MANUFACTURING INVESTMENT CASTINGS BY THE LOSS WAX PROCESS, STARTING WITH HIS FATHER-IN-LAW AT STARKS FOUNDRY, THEN HOWARD FOUNDRY BEFORE MOVING TO DALLAS TO RUN CONSOLIDATED CASTING AND CERCON. HE WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INVESTMENT CASTING INSTITUTE ORIGINALLY FOUNDED IN PART BY HIS BUSINESS PARTNER WALT DUBOVICK. BILL WAS PRESIDENT OF THE INSTITUTE RESPONSIBLE FOR SETTING INDUSTRY WIDE STANDARDS FOR INVESTMENT CASTINGS ON TWO DIFFERENT TERMS AND IS LARGELY INFLUENTIAL IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN DAY INVESTMENT CASTING ALL PRIOR TO ACCOMPLISHING HIS DREAM OF OWNING AND OPERATING HIS OWN FOUNDRY SURE CAST IN BURNET TEXAS IN 1984.

BILL HAD A PASSION FOR BASEBALL, PLAYING IN THE MILITARY, EARNING AN INVITE TO A SPRING TRAINING CAMP IN THE BIG LEAGUE. HE LOVED MOTORCYCLES STARTING WITH DIRT BIKES UNTIL AGE PUSHED HIM TO THE SMOOTHER STREET. HE WAS AN AVID READER, KNOWN AS A GENEROUS PERSON ALWAYS EAGER TO LEND A HELPING HAND, OR EVEN MORE SO AN EAR. BILL HAD AN OUTSTANDING TALENT OF REALLY LISTENING TO PEOPLE WITH A GENUINE INTEREST ALLOWING HIM TO QUICKLY FORGE LONG LASTING FRIENDSHIPS IMPACTING 100’S OF LIVES THAT WILL TRULY MISS HIS EXTREMELY ENERGETIC PERSONALITY.

VISITATION WILL BE HELD MONDAY December 21, 2015 AT CLEMENTS-WILCOX FUNERAL HOME IN BURNET FROM 5:00 – 8:00 PM.

FUNERAL SERVICE WILL BE HELD Tuesday December 22, 2015 AT CLEMENTS-WILCOX FUNERAL HOME IN BURNET AT 10:00 AM.

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