William Clifford Creary  was a WWII veteran and a Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves, and retired to Panama City with his wife Mabel. Wm and Mabel Creary were the parents of two sons: Wm C. Creary Jr. and James Marshall Creary. On April 7, 1969, Lt. Col. Creary died in Biloxi, Mississippi, buried next to his parents in the Creary family plot.