William Jasper Stigall Jr. of Scarborough, New York, died September 14 after a short illness. Death came just 10 weeks after his 90th birthday and six months after publication of his World War II memoir, “A Shower of Frogs”. Born in Chicago, Mr. Stigall was graduated from the University of Illinois and the Goodman School of Drama, Art Institute of Chicago. He was a decorated veteran of the Eighty-Second Airborne Division, a stage director, actor, college professor, author, and traveller. His two short plays, “Six Women Remember William Shakespeare” and “Emily Bronte Storyteller” have been widely produced in New York. He is survived by his wife, Phyllis Graham Pooley Stigall and their son, Dr. Samuel G. Pooley of Honolulu; granddaughter Cecelia K.M. Pooley of Laytonville, California; and sister-in-law Mary Graham of Fort Wayne, Indiana. There will be no services.
