Obit: Bolton, Raymond Warren (1931 - 2016)
Transcriber: Robert Lipprandt
bob@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
Surnames: Bolton, Hedbavny, Herrmann, Imbach, Sellers, Tingo
----Source: The Heindl Funeral Home (Phillips, WI) 11/23/2016
Bolton, Raymond Warren (24 AUG 1931 - 21 NOV 2016)
Raymond Warren Bolton passed away on Monday, November 21, 2016, at the Aspirus
Wausau Hospital under the care of Aspirus Hospice with the love of his family
and faithful dog, Gus, by his side.
A celebration of Ray’s life will be held at the Heindl Funeral Home in Phillips
at 11:00 A.M. on Saturday, November 25, with Pastor Terry Sellers officiating.
Military honors will be conducted by the Lane Kreiling American Legion Post No.
122 and the Frank and Michael Baran VFW Post No. 5778. Interment will be in the
Lakeside Cemetery in Phillips. Friends may call at the funeral home on Saturday
from 10:00 A.M. until the time of services.
Ray was born August 24, 1931, to Frank and Anna (Hedbavny) Bolton in Ashland,
Wisconsin. Ray spent his childhood in the city of Phillips and his free time on
Musser Flowage, East of town. He was a member of the 1949 Class of the Phillips
High School and quit when he was 17 to serve his country during the Korean
Conflict. Ray was a proud Army veteran. And true to a hero, he never talked
about those tough times.
He is survived by his son, Randy (Cindy), Kathy (Tom Tingo), Barbara, and
Dorothy Bolton. He leaves behind a most loving long time special friend, Nancy
Imbach. Ray also leaves behind his faithful dog, Gus, whom everyone will
remember, that went everywhere with him. Ray is also survived by five
grandchildren: Angel, Brittany, Amber, Cody, and Lacey. There are also three
great-grandchildren: Adriana, Brooklyn, and Ciena. He has one sister, Loraynne
(Harvey) Herrmann; a niece Dawn, and a nephew, Gary. Ray had many friends around
Musser and Phillips. He kept in contact with old school chums. Ray will be
missed by all of them.
Ray worked for many years at Phillips Plastics Company in management and was
Plant Manager at the Medford plant, returning to the Phillips plant and retiring
from there.
Ray was an avid outdoors-man which accounted for his love of poema written by
Robert W. Service who wrote tales of the Yukon. Rays favorite was “The Cremation
of Sam McGee”. Ray could recite this poem word for word. He lived by the verse
from another one of Service’s poems, “The Heart of the Sourdough”. Quoted here
“I have flouted the Wild, I have followed its lure, fearless, familiar, alone;
Yet the Wild must win, and a day will come when I shall be overthrown”.
Online condolences may be expressed at
www.heindlfuneralhome.com.
The Heindl Funeral Home in Phillips is assisting the family with funeral
arrangements.
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