Bill was born at home on June 24th, 1926 in Salt Lake City, Utah to William Horne and Helga Augusta Elizabeth (Pedersen) Tingey. He was the second of three children, including his older sister, Eugenia and younger sister, Martha.
Bill grew and excelled in education with a great love of music. He was proud to be a WWII Veteran, having served immediately after graduation from high school in the Army Air Corps in the last year of the war. After his honorable discharge from the Air Corps he served a full time mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Denmark, the land of his mother’s birth. Bill then earned a Bachelors Degree in Business from the University of Utah, married Ruth V. Ray of SLC, and went on to earn his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.
After practicing dentistry in SLC for a year, Bill and Ruth chose to return to the Boston area to raise their seven children in Lincoln, MA. Bill established a dental practice in Cambridge, MA, and taught at the Harvard Dental School for 25 years. He was an avid reader and enjoyed intelligent conversation. He served in many church capacities including Bishop, Stake Missionary, High Councilor, and member of the Boston Stake Presidency. Later in life, Bill met and married his sweetheart Jan Foulger of Salem, Oregon, and after 42 years of practicing dentistry retired to Virginia, where they served together in the LDS Washington DC Temple for 18 years. He was loved by many and had great impact on the lives of everyone fortunate enough to know him.
In the summer of 2021, Bill and Jan moved to Utah to live closer to children and grandchildren. His mind remained as brilliant as ever, and he was in good health right up to the very end. He died from complications of Covid related Pneumonia.
Bill was preceded in death by his sister Eugenia (Tingey) Herlin and husband Melvin, and brother-in-law Alan Cook, and is survived by his dear wife Jan, Neal and Martha (Tingey/Cook) Rosenbaum, and his children: Scott ValRay and Leslie (Wheeler) Tingey, Myron Bryce and Victoria (Pearmain) Tingey, Carl Regan and Tamra (Wilson) Tingey, Scott and Ann Rochelle (Tingey) Gray, Michael Stafford and Janelle (Jorgensen) Tingey, Edmund and Rebecca Ellaine (Tingey) Evans, and Richard Wyler Tingey (Elizabeth Kinne), twenty-four grandchildren and thirty great grandchildren.
An intimate family memorial and interment was held on Jan. 8, 2022, at Wasatch Lawn Cemetery in Millcreek, Utah. He was dearly loved and will be greatly missed.
