Obituary of William Harvey

A funeral service was held on Saturday, December 22 at the Veneta Alliance Church in Veneta, Oregon for William H. “Bill” Harvey of Elmira. He died December 17, 2012 of congestive heart disease at age 94. Bill was born May 3, 1918 in Hardin County, Tennessee, and was known as Homer growing up as a young man.After finishing high school in Tennessee in the middle of the depression and jobs hard to find, he was recruited to join C.C.C. (Civilian Conservation Corps) Camp Arboretum in Corvallis, Oregon to fight fires, plant trees, etc. It was there he met and married Peggy Crover who had 2 sons.Bill was inducted into the Army October 4, 1942 and served with the 533rd Engineer Boat and Shore Regiment, Third Engineer Brigade, an Amphibious Unit, serving in the Southwest Pacific and in the New Guinea Campaign. He was cadried twice, held back to help serve in newly forming units and escaping other war zones. He was honorably discharged March 30, 1945.After the service, he managed tire sales at Sears and many other jobs in order for he and Peggy to build their own butcher shop like none other, Harvey’s Meats. They built it next door to their own home in the mountains of Elmira.Bill was very involved in his community and well-known by many who relied on him for their meat and kind friendship. Bill was a member of the Disabled American Veterans local chapter for many years. He loved people and was always the first to offer a helping hand.Bill is survived by his wife Colleen, his sister Carmack Willis in Atlanta; 2 stepsons, Charles and Monte Crover, 7 step-grandchildren and 12 step-great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Peggy. He was also preceded in death by his parents, Tom and Nellie Harvey, and other family members.Arrangements by Musgrove's at Lane Memorial Gardens & Funeral Home in Eugene.