{"id":51966,"date":"2020-05-15T14:52:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T18:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/?p=51966"},"modified":"2020-05-15T14:52:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T18:52:44","slug":"retired-local-1532-officer-debaun-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/retired-local-1532-officer-debaun-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired Local 1532 officer DeBaun passes away","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William &#8220;Bill&#8221; J. DeBaun, a retiree from SMART Transportation Division Local 1532 and a former vice chairperson and legislative representative for the Kansas City, Kan., local, passed away late last month.<br \/>\nBrother DeBaun was 73 years old.<br \/>\nA yardman out of Argentine Yard in Kansas City, in addition to his service to Local 1532&#8217;s membership, Brother DeBaun also worked as a new hire training coordinator, helping those workers just starting out on the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Railway\/BNSF. Many of those he had trained later asked about how Brother DeBaun and his wife of 34 years, Carol, were doing after his retirement from the railroad in 2005.<br \/>\nHis work as vice local chairperson was &#8220;invaluable&#8221; to the members of LCA 1532, said SMART-TD Vice President Joe M. Lopez.<br \/>\n&#8220;Bill spent countless hours researching and processing time claims on behalf of the membership. Much of that work was done on his accord, without the members having to spend a second of their own time writing up the claim(s), while Bill sacrificed countless hours each month of his own time securing monies on their behalf,&#8221; Lopez said. &#8220;Bill was also an effective legislative representative for Local 1532. Bill\u2019s efforts at taking on the carrier for safety violations were very effective.&#8221;<br \/>\nLopez said that as a local chairperson, he and his predecessor, Doug Schlosser, benefited greatly from DeBaun&#8217;s impeccable organizational skills, as did the members who had their claims paid out.<br \/>\n\u201cI believe I can safely speak on Doug\u2019s behalf when I say both of us were extremely lucky to have worked with Bill. During our many years of working together, on the second Wednesday of every month, Bill and I would attend our regularly scheduled claims conference with local management and at the onset of each of those conferences Bill would hand me a large stack of claim dockets neatly organized and with an abundance of supporting documentation, which more often than not, led to a successful conference,&#8221; Lopez said. &#8220;The quality of Bill\u2019s work as both a vice local chairperson and legislative representative has been unmatched and likely never will be. Bill made me a better local chairperson.\u201d<br \/>\nBrother DeBaun was a veteran of the U.S. Navy. He is survived by his wife, Carol, nephews John &amp; Shawn Strange and a number of other relatives.<br \/>\nSMART Transportation Division offers its sincere condolences to his family, his Local 1532 union brothers and sisters and all who knew Brother DeBaun.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maplehillfuneralhome.com\/obituaries\/William-Debaun\/#!\/Obituary\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">His full obituary is available here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William &#8220;Bill&#8221; J. DeBaun, a retiree from SMART Transportation Division Local 1532 and a former vice chairperson and legislative representative for the Kansas City, Kan., local, passed away late last month. Brother DeBaun was 73 years old. 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