Notes from Richard Smith:
“Bill was on leave from the army before being deployed to Viet Naum. While in Ohio visiting his parents and wife, he was killed in an automobile accident. The driver was going too fast and went out of control and hit a tree. Bill was thrown from the car and hit the tree head on.”1836

Newspaper article, Newcomerstown, Ohio (from Richard Smith)
“William Lee Bosold 21, of Newcomerstown, Ohio Rt. 1 was instantly killed in a one-car accident at 4:15 a.m. Sunday on Routes 16-36 about .1 of a mile east of West Lafayette. Bosold a serviceman on leave was scheduled to leave Monday for duty in Vietnam. He was a passenger in the car driven by Thomas D. Rauch, Gnadenhutten, who was seriously injured. A deputy sheriff said Rauch's automobile, eastbound, went out of control, skidded left of center off the highway, went through a fence and came to rest against a tree on the farm of Louis Ianniello, West Lafayette, Route 1. Rauch, suffering from internal injuries and a fractured leg, was first treated in Coshocton Memorial Hospital and later removed to Mt. Carmel Hospital, Columbus, for additional treatment. The deputy sheriff said that when the car struck the tree Bosold was thrown to the ground. The front end of the car, which was a fiber-glass body caved in. The motor and transmission were thrown from the vehicle by the impact. Requiem Mass for Mr. Bosold, was said at 10 a.m. Tuesday by Rev. Patrick Byrne at the Addy Funeral Home. He was born Nov. 16, 1947, in Wheeling, W.Va., a son of Francis and Dolores Smith Bosold. On April 6, 1966, he married Diane Shaffer. She and a daughter, Dawn, live in Newark. Other survivors are a sister, Sharon Marie and a brother, Gary Francis, both of the home, and the maternal grandmother, Mrs. Gertrude Long, Wheeling. Bosold, an Army Private who was on a delay en route from Ft. Lewis, Wash., to Vietnam, was a member of St. Francis De Sales Church. He formerly was employed at Pretty Products Inc.”1836