Bill Price | |||||||||||||||
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Born | July 18, 1927 | ||||||||||||||
Died | December 12, 2021 Calgary, Alberta, Canada | (aged 94)||||||||||||||
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William Hilliard Slade Price[1][2] (July 18, 1927 – December 12, 2021) was a Canadian curler. He played as lead on the 1957 and 1958 Brier-winning Team Alberta, skipped by Matt Baldwin.[3]
Price grew up in Saskatoon and attended the University of Alberta where he studied chemical engineering. There, he won the Gene Carrigan Trophy as the Edmonton's most outstanding junior athlete, as he was a top basketball player for the Alberta Golden Bears and was a top city baseball player at the time.[3] He lived in Edmonton.[4][5] He married Margaret Jeanne (Peggy) Blundell[6] in 1950.[2] and had six children. Price died in Calgary on December 12, 2021.[7]