William John Meese

Bill and I met riding buses between NBS and Chillum heights Md. in the fall of 1951. We both worked in the Industrial Bldg. We introduced our families to each other Jessie and John 1yr old and Mary, Don 1yr old and Louise 1mo. at most. Welater carpooled together and went places together. The next year we moved to Chillum Heights Md living about two blocks apart. We carpooled, bought new cars, a vacationed together with our families, eventually buying houses next door to each other in 1956. We coontinued a lifetime of vactioning together and seperately the rest of our lies. My son Rick who still lives with me was born December 1966. We will both miss Bill and Jessie as well as my wife Mary who died July 29, 2008. We will also miss them when we go to the Bahamas where we vacationed together over 20 yrs. His children and grandchildren ar almost like the wer mine and Mary,s

My first cousin Bill Meese and his wife Jessie mean’t a lot to me over the years. Although a continent away, I thoroughly enjoyed my visits to them peroidically throughout the years. My parents and grandparents had a very close relationship with him even prior to the time his mother Helen died at age 32 leaving Bill (age 6 or 7 at the time) and his younger siblings in my grandparent’s care for a year; my mother helped care for them, thoroughly enjoying it, and thereafter always felt so close to Bill and his devoted wife Jessie who did so much to enhance family relationships.