Battle Ground City Councilor Bill Ganley died Saturday after a yearslong battle with cancer, and residents will have a chance to honor him during a memorial service at 2 p.m. Dec. 11 at the Battle Ground Community Center, 912 E. Main St., Battle Ground.
In lieu of flowers, his family requests donations be made to the Humane Society for Southwest Washington, at southwesthumane.org, or The Carcinoid Cancer Foundation, at www.carcinoid.org.
Ganley taught and coached track at Battle Ground High School for 28 years, and started working for the city in 1991, when he was appointed to the Battle Ground Planning Commission. In 1993, he was elected to Position No. 6 of the city council, a position he was re-elected to for five consecutive four-year terms. He was the city’s mayor from 1997 to 2001.
“Bill Ganley was not a Battle Ground native, but like a good portion of our citizens, he embraced Battle Ground as his own, and we are a better community for having Bill as one of us,” Battle Ground Mayor Philip Johnson said in statement. “Bill wore many hats, he first was a son, and a husband, he was a fireman at heart, he was a teacher who only wanted the best for his students, he was a city councilman and mayor who was concerned greatly about Battle Ground and its future. Mostly he was a good friend to me and a multitude of others.”
