Below is a page from Raley's history book. After reading this page, and had you not known that Tom and Claire Raley were divorced in 1961, you would have probably assumed that Tom Raley and Claire Raley were building lives of their own, drifted apart, and decided to call it quits in 1968 and the two of them divorced. This page was designed to totally deceive their employees and anybody else who would eventually read this historical account of Tom Raley's life.
In fact, nowhere in Raley's History book does Joyce Raley Teel, Jim Teel, or Chuck Collings mention Tom Raley's second marriage to wife Joan. Joan's Bulechek's and Tom Raley's divorce file can be found by punching in the case file number below into the County Records at Saccourt.com case index:
| RALEY,CLAIRE E |
09/22/1961 |
132959 |
| RALEY,JOAN AKA BULECHEK |
254323 |
4/28/1975 |
| BULECHEK,JOAN M AKA RALEY |
254323 |
4/28/1975 |
| BULECHEK,JOAN M AKA RALEY |
254323 |
4/28/1975 |
Below is another page from Raley's history book. After reading this page there seems to be one big question: Why did Tom Raley remarry again at the age of 85 to a woman named Dotti?
Maybe Joyce, Jim, and Chuck Collings (aka "my word is my bond") realized that if Tom Raley didn't get remarried before he passed away, there would always be this public question about whether or not Tom Raley (the greatest grocer who ever lived) ever remarried after his divorce from his first wife Claire. And by the mere fact that Raley's history book doesn't mention Tom Raley's marriage to his second wife Joan, it seems possible that they encouraged this third Tom Raley marriage to the woman named Dottie, so Joyce, Jim, and Chuck wouldn't have to be reminded by the embarrassing marriage that Tom Raley had with Joan. Don't forget, Joan is the woman that Tom Raley was abusing in San Francisco on Valentine's Day in 1974.
Raley's history book was going to be written shortly after Tom Raley got remarried in 1987. It was and published in 1989.
After reading the page below, it will become another credible reason why the TV news media and the newspaper media never wanted to tell the story of Charles Nordby. It would be too embarrassing for the Sacramento community.
