Ronald D. Colby, 73, of 5382 County Trunk V, died at 8 a.m. Saturday, June 21, 1997, at his home.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Buchanan Funeral Home. The Rev. Dave Sobek will officiate. Burial will be in Mound Cemetery, with military rites by Palmer-Ritchie-Thomas American Legion Post 153.
Mr. Colby was born March 7, 1924, in Edmund, to George and Louise (Engnach) Colby. He married Joyce Sexton on Nov. 24, 1951, in Dubuque, Iowa.
He was a truck driver and operated a tavern in Stueben.
Mr. Colby served in the U.S. Army Infantry in World War II, from 1942-45, as a medic in the front lines in Europe. He was a prisoner of war and received a Purple Heart.
Survivors include his wife, Joyce, Pittsville; five brothers, John, of Eagle; Kenneth, of Madison; George, of Antigo; Robert, of Mesa, Ariz., and Edwin, of Nekoosa; and three sisters, Eva McChesney, Adams; Almira Williams, Waukesha, and Lou Ann Schatzka, Oxford. He was predeceased by his parents, two brothers and one sister.
Wisconsin Rapids (Wisconsin) Daily Tribune, Monday, June 23, 1997
Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Buchanan Funeral Home. The Rev. Dave Sobek will officiate. Burial will be in Mound Cemetery, with military rites by Palmer-Ritchie-Thomas American Legion Post 153.
Mr. Colby was born March 7, 1924, in Edmund, to George and Louise (Engnach) Colby. He married Joyce Sexton on Nov. 24, 1951, in Dubuque, Iowa.
He was a truck driver and operated a tavern in Stueben.
Mr. Colby served in the U.S. Army Infantry in World War II, from 1942-45, as a medic in the front lines in Europe. He was a prisoner of war and received a Purple Heart.
Survivors include his wife, Joyce, Pittsville; five brothers, John, of Eagle; Kenneth, of Madison; George, of Antigo; Robert, of Mesa, Ariz., and Edwin, of Nekoosa; and three sisters, Eva McChesney, Adams; Almira Williams, Waukesha, and Lou Ann Schatzka, Oxford. He was predeceased by his parents, two brothers and one sister.
Wisconsin Rapids (Wisconsin) Daily Tribune, Monday, June 23, 1997
Ronald D. Colby, 73, of 5382 County Trunk V, died at 8 a.m. Saturday, June 21, 1997, at his home.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Buchanan Funeral Home. The Rev. Dave Sobek will officiate. Burial will be in Mound Cemetery, with military rites by Palmer-Ritchie-Thomas American Legion Post 153.
Mr. Colby was born March 7, 1924, in Edmund, to George and Louise (Engnach) Colby. He married Joyce Sexton on Nov. 24, 1951, in Dubuque, Iowa.
He was a truck driver and operated a tavern in Stueben.
Mr. Colby served in the U.S. Army Infantry in World War II, from 1942-45, as a medic in the front lines in Europe. He was a prisoner of war and received a Purple Heart.
Survivors include his wife, Joyce, Pittsville; five brothers, John, of Eagle; Kenneth, of Madison; George, of Antigo; Robert, of Mesa, Ariz., and Edwin, of Nekoosa; and three sisters, Eva McChesney, Adams; Almira Williams, Waukesha, and Lou Ann Schatzka, Oxford. He was predeceased by his parents, two brothers and one sister.
Wisconsin Rapids (Wisconsin) Daily Tribune, Monday, June 23, 1997
Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Buchanan Funeral Home. The Rev. Dave Sobek will officiate. Burial will be in Mound Cemetery, with military rites by Palmer-Ritchie-Thomas American Legion Post 153.
Mr. Colby was born March 7, 1924, in Edmund, to George and Louise (Engnach) Colby. He married Joyce Sexton on Nov. 24, 1951, in Dubuque, Iowa.
He was a truck driver and operated a tavern in Stueben.
Mr. Colby served in the U.S. Army Infantry in World War II, from 1942-45, as a medic in the front lines in Europe. He was a prisoner of war and received a Purple Heart.
Survivors include his wife, Joyce, Pittsville; five brothers, John, of Eagle; Kenneth, of Madison; George, of Antigo; Robert, of Mesa, Ariz., and Edwin, of Nekoosa; and three sisters, Eva McChesney, Adams; Almira Williams, Waukesha, and Lou Ann Schatzka, Oxford. He was predeceased by his parents, two brothers and one sister.
Wisconsin Rapids (Wisconsin) Daily Tribune, Monday, June 23, 1997
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