Warren K. Colby

COLBY, Warren K. 95, of Cape Rosier, ME and Bolton, MA died on July 14, 2008. orn in Newton, attended Yale University, worked for Eastman Kodak Company. His reels of film documenting early skiing in New England were recently provided to the New England Ski Museum. During WW II, he served in the US Navy Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington, DC, the United Kingdom and the Pacific. After the Navy his jobs included owning and running a local country general store; business manager, teacher, coach, singer at the Browne and Nichols School; work for the MA Horticultural Society and finally the Dept of Agriculture where he was instrumental in developing, promoting, and lobbying for the successful passage of the Agricultural Preservation Restriction (APR) legislation. He was active in town government. He was a member of the early regional school committee that established the Nashoba Regional School District and initiated construction of the high school. He helped establish the Bolton Conservation Commission as well as the Bolton Conservation Trust, and served as chairman of both for many years. He was also an active longtime member of the Schussverein Ski Club and the Cruising Club of America. He is survived by his daughter Betsy Cussen (Denver, CO), three sons, J. Prentice Colby (Marlborough, NH), Herb Colby (Bolton, MA), and Andy Colby (Orlando, FL), their spouses, and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The family will celebrate his life at a memorial gathering at his old homestead (and now Herb's) at 159 Golden Run Road, Bolton, MA Sept. 20th from 2 to 5pm. Remembrances in Warren's memory can be made to the Bolton Conservation Trust, P.O. Box 14, Bolton, MA 01740.