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Robert Roy Bledsoe

Posted 2009-04-11 by Maurine
Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, Arizona
June 5, 1996

Robert Roy Bledsoe of Congress, died June 2 in Congress. He was 86.
Mr. Bledsoe was born Jan. 22, 1910 in Santa Rosa, Calif. He had lived in Arizona for the past 20 years, coming from California.

Mr. Bledsoe, and his wife, Rae, were well known to many in the area from their ownership and operation of the Aztec Trailer Park in Wickenburg from 1973 to 1991, when they sold the, park.

Mr. Bledsoe had a love of aeronautics, having bought and teaching himself to fly when he was 80 years old.

During his lifetime Mr. Bledsoe worked at car sales, antique sales and restoration, and tuning and restoring pianos and organs, He also had artistic talent, working in painting and silk screening.

In his youth he enjoyed fishing with his brother, Ernest Wayne Bledsoe, who preceded him in death. Mr. Bledsoe also served in the U.S. Navy.

Survivors include a stepson, Milo Elofson of Chandler; cousin Gladys Matovich of Cloverdale California and close friend Ines Saems of Wickenburg. He was preceded in death by his wife, Rae, in March 1994, and his father, Ernest Ray Bledsoe.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 8 at Frey Funeral Home and Cremation Service, with interment to follow in the Congress Cemetery. Pastor Duane Middleton will officiate.

Contributions in Mr. Bledsoe’s name may be made to a charity of one's choice.

Frey Funeral Home and Cremation Service was in charge of all arrangements.



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