Stanley Westmoreland, 76, died Feb. 10 from symptoms related to COVID-19. He was a Marine Corps veteran, serving as a sergeant in the Vietnam War, according to his family.
During his time in Vietnam, Stanley s family said, he was exposed to Agent Orange, which in all likelihood impacted his respiratory system as he struggled to overcome the virus.
“When he came home for four days, he was not really well enough to come home, Ivy Westmoreland said. But he came home, I believe. to say goodbye to each of us,.
The couple had been married for 41 years, first meeting at the old Fed Mart, where they both worked, 43 years ago.
LEMON GROVE
U.S. Marine Corps veteran and longtime Lemon Grove resident Stan Westmoreland, a sergeant who fought in the Vietnam War, died Feb. 10 at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego
from complications due to COVID-19. He was 76.
Ilene Westmoreland said her father’s father was a full-blooded Cherokee Indian. She describer her father as private, patient and humble, a dedicated husband to his wife of 41 years, Ivy Sue, and father and good with numbers.
“He was a very good man,” his daughter said.
Ilene Westmoreland remembers when her father took a year off from work when she was in third grade and devoted his time to help her in school. She remembers trips to the library where he would take out books to read to her. She said she remembers having a project for school about “Beauty and the Beast” and how her father stopped at myriad malls during an eight-hour stretch to get her exactly what she needed. He also taught her how to drive a car.