How Should We Perceive Death?

By Byron Norrod

I’d like to just start off with a small eulogy for William Pierce. Bill Pierce was a good guy, originally from Columbus, Ohio, and he was 85 years old and On October 22nd he died.

We miss Bill because he left such a good example, and I’ll cite some of the examples that he left. It was neat because when he went into the nursing home, he didn’t want to be neat to his daughter; He wanted to be close to his people in the Church, to be able to attend services so that the brethren could visit him. It was really nice.

Bill was funny. He said that he said, ‘Well, you don’t always have to call me Bill, you can call me Bob because I go by both.’ So I always made it a point to call him Bill one time and then Bob the next, and he loved it. It was great. That was his kind of thing. So it was a fun thing. He had a good sense of humor and he always wanted to bring some levity to wherever he was. He is survived by three adult children six grandchildren and extended family.

But he left a great example. His roommate at the nursing home was an atheist. But Bob would talk to him over and over again about his relationship with God and fulfilled prophecy and things that he saw and the things that he understood. By the time Bill died, the man was no longer an atheist.

He had such a witness that the man is now fully on board and wants a Christian connection. He believes the Bible and he’s starting to read, and that’s amazing!

When Bill at the very last went to the hospital, this man was really hoping that Bill was going to come back. He told Paula, Bill’s daughter says, ‘I want to make sure that he understands how much he meant to me because he’s changed my life.’ She said, ‘I was touched by that.’

He wrote Bill a four-page letter telling Bill what a difference he had made in his life...

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