BILL TIDWELL
March 22, 2023
Bill Tidwell passed away on March 16, 2023, due to complications from cancer. He was born April 8, 1932, in Kiowa, Kansas, to Helen Mae Shafer Tidwell and William Lawrence Tidwell.
The youngest of six children, Bill spent his early years on the family farm outside of Kiowa. In the 1940s his brothers entered the armed services and his father passed away, leaving 10-year-old Bill with his mother and sister, Helen June, on the homestead. At Kiowa High, he emerged as an outstanding athlete and the state's premier young miler, beating Wes Santee in the 1950 State High School Meet and breaking the r...
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