Colonel William A. Verkest, USAF
(ret.) “rose from the entry-level leadership position of Second Lieutenant to Colonel. In a 25-year career in the USAF,
Verkest commanded a 500-person civil engineering squadron, a 570-person design/build combat engineering squadron, and provided
public works policy guidance to 15 USAF bases from the Headquarters of the Military Airlift Command.” William
A. Verkest is the author of A Family Matter: A Guide to Organizing Your Personal Estate.
According to the book description of A Family
Matter: A Guide to Organizing Your Personal Estate, “How to organize a personal estate is the central
purpose of this Guide. It will help the reader put in place the most important information a family will ever need during
a life threatening or emergency situation. The Guide will also assist in long term management of an estate's assets and
expedite income tax return filing. And, it will provide a certain peace of mind for a head of household who will know he or
she has fully taken care of his or her family.”
