| Graduation Year | Class of 1999 |
| Date of Passing | (unknown) |
| About | From an interview with Bill Packard (Bill Packard Comes Clean on Trying to Clean Up Flagstaff Non-profits Apr 18, 2021) "In 1999, the couple's son, Bill IV, died in a car accident driving on Interstate 17 from Flagstaff to their home in Munds Park. The loss devastated them but, in their grief, they looked outward instead of collapsed inward. They both redoubled their efforts at volunteering. "It's remarkable how big the club is when you've lost a child," Bill says. "Everybody who lost (a child) wants to reach out and help you, and we appreciated that. We met people that mourned for a year, folded up their tent. But they didn't seem to gain anything from doing that. We felt like we had to get back to some normalcy asap." Barbara: "(Volunteering) gave me purpose, and I did it in Billy's name. We had to keep one foot in front of the other because B.J. (their younger son) was only 12. It brought joy to our life, volunteering. We were doing something with our life and that got us up in the morning." https://azdailysun.com/news/local/bill-packard-comes-clean-on-trying-to-clean-up-flagstaff-nonprofits/article_d0bad094-5a58-5a2d-8c6f-3fcfe349a3ee.html |
