William G. Rokos passed away peacefully on April 10, 2025 at the age of 95. Originally from Queens, New York.
He is predeceased by his wife of more than 70 years, Jean Rokos.
Bill and Jean met in 1948 when Bill was 19 and Jean was still in high school. When Bill was drafted into the army for service during the Korean War, they quickly decided to marry so that she could live on base with him while he was stationed in Mineral Wells, TX. The old folks said these kids would never last.
Bill was also a shortstop in the Brooklyn Dodgers organization and a skilled commercial draftsman. During the war, Bill was trained as an operating engineer and learned valuable skills as a grader operator. After the war, Jean and Bill moved to Bay Shore on Long Island where Jean found work as a skilled secretary and Bill was an operating engineer with Local 10. He was an avid yachtsman in the 1960s and ’70s and a self-taught, scratch golfer.
They also wintered for many years at their villa on St. Croix. Jean and Bill retired and moved to Florida in 1990. They first lived in Stuart, then in Palm Beach, and then headed to northern Florida to a house in Howey-in-the-Hills before their final move into Lakeport Square Village in Leesburg. At the time of Bill’s passing, he left 3 nephews, Bob, Greg and Ted, and numerous great nieces and a nephew.