| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Fourth Generation27. Raymond H. "Ray" HABELMAN was born on 1 November 1914 in Greenfield Township, Monroe County, WI.8,22,28,41 He graduated in 1931 in Tomah, Tomah Township, Monroe County, WI.54 from Tomah High School. Between 1944 and 2001 he was a cranberry grower in Greenfield Township, Monroe County, WI.41 He developed an original 13-acre cranberry marsh into a corporation with three locations totaling more than 600 producing acres. His farm became the largest family-owned fresh fruit producer in the U.S. He was a member and past chairman of the Ocean Spray Cranberry Board of Directors, serving from 1966-1988. Ray died on 15 December 2001 at the age of 87 in Sparta, Sparta Township, Monroe County, WI.41 in the Rolling Hills Nursing Home. He was buried on 18 December 2001 in La Grange Township, Monroe County, WI.41 in the LaGrange Township Cemetery. Raymond H. "Ray" HABELMAN and Jean Lorraine WHITE were married on 19 June 1943.22,41 Jean Lorraine WHITE, daughter of John Clemen WHITE and Hazel Esther CLAWSON, was born on 22 December 1922 in New Lisbon, Juneau County, WI.41 She graduated in 1940 in Tomah, Tomah Township, Monroe County, WI.41 from Tomah High School. She died on 29 October 2001 at the age of 78 in Tomah, Tomah Township, Monroe County, WI.41 Jean was buried after 29 October 2001 in La Grange Township, Monroe County, WI.41 in the LaGrange Township Cemetery. Raymond H. "Ray" HABELMAN and Jean Lorraine WHITE had the following children:
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