Charles Adam and Clyde Wayne Ritenour

Charles Adam and Clyde Wayne Ritenour

Ritenour, Clyde Wayne (1938-2018)

Ritenour, Charles Adam (1941-2022)

Photograph of Charles Adam Ritenour, on the left, with his older brother, Clyde Wayne Ritenour, on the right. Both are wearing overalls.

They were the children of Clyde Maynard (1906-1968) and Isabel (Clem) (1906-1988) Ritenour. They grew up in Fort Valley.

Charles Adam was a 1959 graduate of Strasburg High School and worked at Avtex Incorporated in Front Royal until the plant closed. Later, he worked as an electronic technician for the Boeing Corporation. He married Roberta (Miller) Ritenour and together, the couple stayed in Fort Valley and raised two children: Lisa Ann and Charles Adam, Jr. Ritenour.

Clyde Wayne finished high school and married Pauline Ann Proctor in 1961. They had a son, Shane Lee Ritenour. In 1981, they divorced. Clyde’s second marriage was to Linda Ann (Foley) Dellinger. It was a second marriage for both of them.

They lived in Woodstock and Edinburg for periods of time before moving to Florida sometime after 2010. Clyde’s home was in Port Richey, Florida, at the time of his death.

Morrison Studio

Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society

Shenandoah County Library

ca early 1940s

Identified in April 2007 by Janita (Grandstaff) Giles, subjects' cousin, who lived next door to them in Fort Valley.

Additional biographical information was compiled from public records.

Also identified in July 2003 by Lois Love, who said that Clyde R. Ritenour was actually Claude Ritenour. She gave no other information and it is unclear whether she was related.

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