Jack Cleveland Wiltbank |
| Posted 2009-09-13 by Sharla |
| The White Mountain Independent Show Low, Arizona 01/20/2006 Jack Cleveland Wiltbank, 84, of Grants Pass, Ore. died Jan. 10, 2006 at his home. He was born Jan. 22, 1921 in Greer. Jack was raised in the White Mountains. He started first grade at the age of 3, as the one-room schoolhouse he attended needed one more student in order to stay open. He started Arizona State Teacher's College on a football scholarship at the age of 16. His college years were interrupted when he joined the United States Navy as a seaman. He later received a commission as Ensign. Following his service in the Navy, he graduated from Arizona State Teacher's College in 1946. Jack married Helen "Rusty" Hutton in Albany N.Y. Feb. 17, 1945. He was farm manager and raised pacers and trotters in the heart of the blue grass country in Virginia during the late 1940s. At that time he became an expert in saddlery apprenticed under the G. I. Bill. In 1950, he decided to return with his family to Arizona. He worked as a carpenter for several years and ultimately built the Big 10 Cabin Resort in Greer which he and Rusty owned and operated with their family (Lynn, Wayne and Jerry) until their move to Oregon in 1999. During his early years Jack enjoyed riding horses and branding cattle with his father, raising a garden, flowers, hunting, fishing, and being with his wife and family in his mountain home in Greer. He was a lifetime member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He is urvivors include his wife Rusty; daughter Lyn and husband Bud; son Wayne and wife Justine; son Jerry; a very special cousin Richard Eagar and wife Ann; 11 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren; three sisters and one brother. Services were held Monday, Jan. 16 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Eagar Stake Center. Interment was at the Eagar Cemetery, Eagar. Burnham Mortuary was entrusted with the arrangements. See Also: Find A Grave |
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