Preston Ray Sweeney, Sr. “Sweeney”
Preston Ray Sweeney, Sr. “Sweeney” was born on Nov. 2, 1931, and was just a few days from his 87th birthday when he left this world on Oct. 19, 2018. His parents, Wilbert Preston Sweeney and Alta Faye Kephart Sweeney, moved to Billings from Holt County, Missouri, in the 1920s. Sweeney’s first job was working in the family truck garden on Poly Drive.
At the age of 8 years old, he developed polio and spent several months in the hospital. He often recounted that, from his hospital window, he had watched the Northern Hotel burn down (fall of 1940). He never read more
