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Stan Westmoreland, 76, Marine Corps veteran, dies from COVID-19 complications


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. ....

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