William “Bill” Lewis Baumgardner, Jr., went home to be with Jesus on January 13, 2025. He was born on November 1, 1947, the only child to William Sr. and Allene Baumgardner in Wilmington, NC. He married the love of his life, Barbara “Bobbie” Short Baumgardner, on August 18, 1968. Bill and Bobbie were married at Green Memorial Baptist Church in Charlotte, NC, and attended there, where Bill served as a deacon and on various committees, until 1991, when they began attending Carmel Baptist Church.
Bill graduated from Harding High School in Charlotte, NC in 1966. He took a leave from college to proudly serve his country in the Army Reserves. He graduated from University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a BBA in Accounting and began his tax career with Coopers and Lybrand. An entrepreneur at heart, he was always venturing into new industries, founding, buying and merging companies along the way. He started StaffAmerica Corp. in 1985, which was the springboard to a successful NASCAR career, founding a technology company in Arizona, acquiring other PEO companies around the country, and eventually licensing an international reinsurance company. He genuinely enjoyed working with so many fabulous people from so many different backgrounds and areas of his life.