Ramon Wilfred Stratton (1928 - 1993)

Born 21 Apr 1928 in Rainier, Columbia, Oregon, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Ruby Nell (Reynolds) Stratton — married 29 Nov 1947 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States

Died 22 Jan 1993 at age 64 in Scappoose, Columbia, Oregon, USA father DNA Connection

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Biography

When Ramon Wilfred Stratton was born on April 21, 1928, in Rainier, Oregon, his father, Reuben, was 44 and his mother, Flora, was 39. He married Ruby Nell Reynolds on November 29, 1947, in Chisolm, Alabama. They had three children during their marriage. He died on January 22, 1993, in Scappoose, Oregon, at the age of 64, and was buried in Portland, Oregon.

Ramon was a FBI Special Agent, and was credited with solving the 1974 $4.3 million Purolator Armored-car warehouse robbery, which at the time, was the largest cash robbery in the U.S. He was also credited for solving the Minnesota socialite Virginia Piper kidnapping, days before the statute of limitations was to expire.

Burial Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States of America

Sources

First-hand information & personal recollection of events witnessed by and remembered by son David R. Stratton 28 Feb 2024.

< Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan 1993 - Obituaries />

• "United States Census, 1930", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XC9Z-YSW : Fri Oct 06 09:53:46 UTC 2023), Entry for Ruben E Stratton and Flora E Stratton, 1930.

• "United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8GV-W74 : 5 December 2014), Ramon W Stratton, enlisted 30 Mar 1946, Portland, Oregon, United States; citing "Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938-1946," database, The National Archives: Access to Archival Databases (AAD) (http://aad.archives.gov : National Archives and Records Administration, 2002); NARA NAID 1263923, National Archives at College Park, Maryland.

• "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKMB-CXB4 : Fri Oct 20 05:04:19 UTC 2023), Entry for Ramon Wilfred Stratton and Ruben Stratton, 29 Nov 1947.