NWA Capt. Billy Paul Current

 

~ IN MEMORY ~

NWA Capt. Billy Paul Current

April 1, 1940 - October 17, 2023 

Notice of passing….retired Northwest Airlines pilot Captain Billy Paul Current, age 83.  Captain Current joined Northwest Airlines 09-05-1967.  He is survived by his wife Kathy, and by his children and his grandson.

Obituary information is available online at

https://www.gillbrothers.com/memorials/billy-current/5309604/index.php

PCN Memorial site

 

Obituary for Billy Paul Current

 

Bill Current of Bloomington, MN passed away unexpectedly on October 17th, 2023 at the age of 83. Bill was the youngest child of 3, born to William and Bertha Current in Harrisonville MO.

 

After graduating Bill became a high school physics teacher in Missouri, but his ultimate passion of flying was still calling. In 1967 Bill become a commercial pilot based out of Minnesota. He had a 32 year career with Northwest Airlines, ultimately becoming a captain of the 757. He said the 757’s were his favorite plane to fly because they were more technologically advanced compared to the other planes at that time, and he really liked the oversized engines that ‘threw you back in your seat’.

But his most notable accomplishments that he would want shared, are the hole in one and the double eagle he pulled off over the course of his golfing ‘career’. Golf was a sport he had a strong love/hate relationship with, but at the end of the day there was no other place he wanted to be, but on the golf course.

 

In 1968 Bill met the love of his life, Kathy, at the old Eddie Webster’s in Bloomington MN. He just happened to stop in on his way home from the airport one night, and Kathy just happened to be there to watch her best friend’s dad play piano. They married after a 3 year courtship and were each other’s rock for the last 53 years

Bill’s companionship, generosity and of course dry wit will be greatly missed. As he always said when doing any work that required a step ladder, ‘I never knew my real ladder’.

 

Bill is preceded in death by parents, William Paul and Bertha; and sisters Patty and Betty. Survived by loving wife Kathy; children Jeff and Cheryl (Jesse) and grandson, Cody.

 

In lieu of flowers, memorials can be sent to The Pacer Center to support their efforts to end bullying https://www.pacer.org/help/donate.asp or the Angel Foundation https://mnangel.org/donate/ to support families going through cancer.