Heidi and Ted Saunders
Jamie Lee
Kathy Reed 2025
Marge and Tom Meyers
Bill Raacke 2024
Bill was a good friend of mine, in great part because he knew how to be a good friend. He told stories of misadventures with his buddies in his youth. He had the courage and good sense to give up the wild life, staying clean and sober, through all the trials of the rest of his life. To the end, Bill remained a friend to those buddies, who struggled ,succeeded, failed, tried again, and often didn’t make it through.
Friendship for Bill meant no recriminations, no reproaches, no giving up.
Bill cultivated a prickly persona, belied by his actions. He started Common Table. He kept up visiting friends from Hillsboro when they could no longer attend.
He was unstinting with his time on the ranch roads. The groundwork he laid still stands the HOA in good stead.
He was always ready with a helping hand, sharing his time, his resources, his experience, his knowledge. You could count on him without reservation.
Bill was a good person to his core. Those who truly knew him, knew a rare friendship.
Christine Schwab
I met Bill Raacke in May of 2009. I had purchased Lot 9 in BCR 1A, now 42 Cochise Trail, in December 2007; camped over the Fourth of July holiday in 2008; and came out for a longer two week stay in May of 2009 to get the lay of the land for siting the house I planned to build. I asked locally if there was an RV I might rent and learned that Nancy Becker had a Mini Winnie she was willing to make available. However, the month before she had had an accident with it in Arizona and was thinking of selling it there. Bill helped her bring it back to Hillsboro. Once back, Bill drove the RV out to Cochise and returned it to Nancy at the end of my visit. This was my first meeting with Bill and I always found him an interesting guy and obviously a very good neighbor to someone who needed help. It was no small matter making a trip to Arizona for Nancy, and then placing the RV on Cochise Trail for someone he didn’t even know.
Robin Tuttle