Willie Minor, an icon and goodwill ambassador for Exton, Downingtown, Coatesville and beyond is now riding that great bicycle in the sky. He was greeted into heaven with endless high fives and locked thumbs — Willie’s traditional greeting for our family whenever we met.
In the late 70s and into the 80s we often joked with Willie that he was the Fonz from Happy Days and he wore this sweatshirt all the time. Like the Fonz, everyone wanted to hang with Willie and all the chicks dug him.
He was a loyal friend to all and especially to my grandfather who he accompanied on many trips far and wide to pick peaches and other fruit, run errands and check in on people.
A few years ago my mother wrote this profile on Willie Minor and it remains one of the most popular posts on this blog.
His obituary is here and the guest book is the truly the best tribute to Willie.
Willie, Easter morning, 1966, overseeing the Easter basket hunt — from our family’s home movies.
The Guernsey Cow, Exton, Pennsylvania 
I remember Willy very fondly from being a teenager in Exton in the seventies – he’d come and visit me at the William Penn gas station across from the drive in… What a terrific spirit.