R. J. & Elaine Savage
I have known Bill for all my life as we both grew up in the little town of Granby, Missouri during the thirties and forties. The Scholes family were mainstays in our little community for many years. Bill’s father, W.W. Scholes, was postmaster for several years and then a rural route carrier for several more years. I remember young Bill delivering coal from the bed of an old truck when I was a youngster and Bill was a teenager. Sometimes when I saw him he was almost as black from coal dust as the coal he was delivering. He knew what hard, manual labor was! I knew Bill as a man with sterling character. He generously supported the Miners Museum in Granby for years where his and his family’s roots are well displayed. Bill, I am sure, was a credit to any community he was a part of and this was certainly true of his home town. We are all blessed to have had such a friend. God’s blessings, God speed and Aloha