Mr. James William (Billy) Wagnon of Tullahoma, Tennessee, passed from this life on Wednesday, May 11, 2016, at Life Care Nursing Home in Tullahoma at age 85. Mr. Wagnon was born on February 11, 1931, in Wetumpka, Alabama, to the late Mr. William Marlowe Wagnon and the late Odessa Turner Wagnon. He was a United States Army Veteran, having served his country in the Korean Conflict. Later he attended Alabama Polytechnic Institute (Auburn University) where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering in three years, War Eagle! Mr. Wagnon was employed at AEDC where he worked in the Instrumentation Engineering section of the Propulsion Wind Tunnel Facility, retiring in 1993 after 37 years of dedicated service. He was an active member of First Baptist Church Tullahoma, where he and his wife, Mary, taught Sunday School for many years in the children’s and preschool departments. He also coached Little League baseball in Tullahoma for many years. Mr. Wagnon was an avid golfer and loved to play both the AEDC and Lakewood courses. In addition to his parents, Mr. Wagnon is preceded in death by his sister, Dorothy Skinner, his identical twin brother, Bobby, and his faithful companion and golf buddy, Muffin. He is survived by his loving wife of 61 years, Mary Frank Wagnon of Tullahoma, two sons, Bill (Pam) Wagnon of Decatur, Mississippi, Fred (Brenda) Wagnon of Normandy, Tennessee, and two daughters, Kathy Abel of Tullahoma and Amy (Ed) Dorman of Tullahoma, and by fourteen grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Visitation with the family will be Saturday, May 14 from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. at Kilgore Funeral Home. Funeral Services will be Sunday, May 15at 2 p.m. at First Baptist Church Tullahoma with Dr. J. Herbert Hester officiating. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Memorial Gardens in Tullahoma with Mr. Wagnon’s grandsons to serve as pallbearers. The family is especially grateful to the staff of The Life Care Center of Tullahoma for outstanding service and ministry during his stay there.
