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- Bill was born in Millet, Alberta on August 6, 1917 the youngest son of Adolf and Justine Rachue. When he was still quite young the family moved to Pendryl, Alberta close to Buck Lake. In the early forties Bill went trucking hauling freight with his brothers along the Alaska Highway and from there he continued on with trucking. In 1946 he met Joyce while driving truck at the coal mine at Grassy Lake. For the next number of years he continued trucking, hauling gravel. Trucking was a job which took him and his family all over Alberta as well as into Saskatchewan. In 1955 Bill and Joyce bought their farm northwest of Grassy Lake where they continued to farm until retiring in 1977 to the Town of Grassy Lake. Bill then took on the job of taking care of the water, sewer and cutting grass in Grassy Lake for five years until he turned sixty-five. For a number of years Bill raised pheasants, quail and peacocks. He always enjoyed fishing, hunting, his birds and took great pride in his garden and flowers in Grassy Lake. In 2002 he recognized that the time had come for another move and Bill and Joyce moved into Pioneer Place in Taber. Bill loved all of his family dearly and will be especially remembered for his great gift of telling stories. He suffered from Alzheimer's and in 2005 he became a resident of Taber Extended Care.
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1917 - 2008
