William Daniel Kelly, veteran, electronics technician

William Daniel “Bill” Kelly, 95, of Milton, passed away peacefully early the morning Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024, after a three-day stay at the Delaware Hospice Center in Milford, having battled complications for three years from two strokes suffered in January 2021.

He was born Sept. 25, 1928, to Clarence Allen Kelly and Emily Lucille Edwards in Toccoa, Ga.

A veteran of both the U.S. Army, which he joined in 1946, where he was stationed in post-war Germany, and the U.S. Air Force, which he joined in 1953, where he was stationed in post-war Japan, and was discharged in 1957, Bill loved to tell stories of his time served in both Germany and Japan.

After training to be an electrician in the Air Force, Bill secured a job as an electronics technician for RCA and later GE. Bill spent most of his career working in the field across the U.S. and Alaska, often for months at a time. He loved talking about the time he worked at the top of the Sears Tower building in Chicago and the “Today Show” studio in New York City. Bill loved his job.

In July of 1964, Bill met the love of his life, Ronald “Ron” Tipton in Philadelphia, Pa.

During their long life together, Bill and Ron lived in Pennsauken, N.J., and Philadelphia and Downingtown Pa., and eventually moved to Delaware for their retirement years. To their friends and neighbors, the lives of Bill and Ron were a love story.

Bill is survived by his loving partner and husband of 59 years, and his devoted caregiver for the last three years of his life, Ron Tipton. Bill is also survived by his niece, Joyce Brown MacFarlin of Cornelia, Ga.

Funeral services will be private.

Visit Bill’s Life Memorial webpage at parsellfuneralhomes.com.