William Mccoy

MCCOY, WILLIAM GORDONFuneral Mass is scheduled for 12:10 p.m., Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at Assumption Catholic Church. Fr. Bill McCann will officiate. Interment will take place at Holy Cross Cemetery, San Antonio, TX on Friday, June 18, 2010.
William Gordon McCoy passed away May 30, 2010 at Eastern NM Medical Center after a brief battle with cancer. He was born at Fort Benning, Georgia on March 31, 1924 to Colonel Edwin D. and Bernice McCoy. He was preceded in death by Beverly H. McCoy and Ruth Engwall McCoy. He was also preceded in death by two brothers, Johnny McCoy and Edwin D. McCoy Jr.
He grew up traveling the world with his parents and the Army, visiting China and the Philippines in the 1930s. He graduated from Central Catholic High School in San Antonio, Texas and began his college career as a Texas Aggie. When the opportunity presented, he entered the Army. He was critically injured in a training accident and honorably discharged after more than a year of treatment and rehabilitation. He returned to Texas AM, completing his Bachelors Degree in Geology in 1945. He was employed by Gulf Oil in Ft. Worth, Texas, and moved to a little town called Roswell. Short moves to Lubbock and Dallas, Texas, were the order in the late 1950s. He resigned from Gulf Oil and moved to Roswell, starting business as an independent oil man. He linked up with another independent named Norm Stevens, and they became McCoy Stevens. He settled in and, together with his wife, Beverly, raised 4 children.
Never one to sit idly by, he became involved with the Junior League and their community improvement efforts. He served on the Roswell Planning Zoning Commission, and was elected to serve on City Council. As his children grew, he became involved with the Scouting movement. Starting with Cub Scout Pack 12 and Boy Scout Troop 12 at St. Peters Church, he started a new group, Troop 6, at Assumption Catholic Church in the late 1960s. Whether it was scouting, coaching baseball, providing horseback riding and dressage lessons, or playing tennis, he was involved with the lives of his children and their friends.
After the youngest children graduated from High School, he and Beverly moved to Santa Fe. There he continued to explore growth opportunities by working and taking 23 classes every semester at whatever school was available. After retiring from selfemployment, he found work as a contracted auditor for the Department of Energy. One of his proudest moments came when a very large oil company cancelled his credit card after he had them billed for the 4.5 million the company had overcharged the government.
Following the death of Beverly, his wife of 53 years, he moved back to Roswell. A proud member of Rotary International, he made every effort to attend every Thursday meeting. He met and married the widow of a long time acquaintance, Ruth Engwall. She preceded him in death, last year. He always looked forward to and talked about his Saturday morning breakfast club, his closest friends in Roswell.
He will be remembered as someone who gave more than he took, whose outdoor philosophy was take only photos and leave only footprints, who practiced his Catholic faith in the preVatican II manner he had converted under, and whose firm conservative views never got in the way of his belief in fairness and honesty. Integrity was never a value with him, it was a way of life. We carry that and his love within us, forever.
He is survived by four children: William Douglass McCoy, Michael F. McCoy, Laura Ann McCoy, and Brian Patrick McCoy ten grandchildren and four great grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to Poor Clare Monastery 809 E. 19th St. Roswell, NM 882017599. www.poorclaresroswell.com
If family or friends would like to pay their respects online they may do so at www.lagronefuneralchapels.com
Arrangements are under the direction of LaGrone Funeral Chapel.

Service

Memorial Mass

Assumption Catholic Church
2808 N Kentucky Ave
Roswell, NM  88201
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
12:10 P.M.

Cemetery

Holy Cross Cemetery
17501 Nacogdoches
San Antonio, TX  78266

Memorial Contributions

809 E. 19th St.
Roswell, NM  88201