Our hearts and thoughts go out to all who cared for and loved Billy.
William Tomb, a longtime Aspenite and supervisor at the Pitkin County Jail, was found dead in his home in the Twin Ridge subdivision on Monday shortly after noon.
Tomb, who was 64, was remembered by colleagues as a friendly and dedicated worker who encountered tragedy in the past decade.
Tomb was preceded in death by his second wife, Sherry, who succumbed to a rare form of Lou Gehrig’s disease in 2005. In December 2004, a fire badly damaged the couple’s home near Aspen Valley Hospital, forcing them to live elsewhere.
Billy Tomb sued the owner of his temporary home after the person allegedly withheld his security deposit. Aspen attorney Jeff Wertz, who represented Tomb in the suit, said Monday that his former client “was a great friend from the day I met him.
“He really inspired me by how he stood by his wife through that ordeal and never lost his sense of humor,” Wertz said. “He was far too good of a person to have all of that on his shoulders.”...."
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