WINTERBLE, William F. (Bill)

Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg Arizona March 25, 1971, page 14 Bill Winterble was widely know life insurance executive - Saddened friends of Bill Winterble gathered in St. Alban’s Episcopal Church and at the Wickenburg Cemetery last Saturday morning to pay their last respects to a man who fought so long and so gallantly against the inroads of failing health. He died Thursday evening, March 18, in the Community Hospital following a heart attack suffered the night previously at this home in Vista del Rio Estates. The Rev. Gus Tuttle Rector, officiated at the St. Alban’s services and burial followed in the Wickenburg Cemetery. Born October 23, 1893 William F. Winterble became, during his lifetime, one of the nation’s most widely known life insurance executives. He first came to Wickenburg in 1952, when ill health led to his retirement as head of Agency Department of the Bakers Life Company, Des Moines, Iowa, Life Insurance Company. A few years later he and Mrs. Winterble built the home in Vista del Rio Estates which they have occupied every winter since. Their summer home has been in Muncy Valley, Penn. His entire business career was with the Bankers Life Company with he joined as a part-time salesman in Minneapolis in 1913. In subsequent years he became a district agent in Richland Center, Wisc., then Agency manager at Madison in the same state and was called into the Home Office of the company in 1934 to take over the a nation-wide sales department. He held the title of Agency Vice-President upon his retirement. He was born in Primghar, Iowa, where his father was a general agent for the same life insurance company. He was educated there, at Pillsbury Academy in Minnesota and at the University of Minnesota. He served World War I as a First Lieutenant of Battery B of the 33rd Field Artillery, going overseas with that organization when it became a part of the AEF. He was active in and held high office in several of the national life insurance sales and agency organizations. During his earlier years here he was an active player-member-officer of the Wickenburg Rotary Club and the Wickenburg Elks Lodge. He was a 50-year member of the American Legion. Mr. Winterble a survived by his wife Kathryn of Wickenburg; two sons, William K. Winterble, Chicago, and Peter Winterble, Washington D. C.; and two daughters. Mrs. Harold. W. Handley of Indianapolis and Mrs. Martha Erickson of Milwaukee. Three grandsons and on granddaughter also survive.