William Ray Cleveland
POLSON — William Ray Cleveland was born on Oct. 20, 1965, and passed away on Nov. 15, 2015. He was born in Denver, Colorado, to parents Johanna and Theodore Cleveland. William was the fifth of six children raised in Arvada, Colorado. William attended and graduated from Arvada High School in 1983. He went on to get a degree in computer drafting. He worked for “Carefree of Colorado” for ten years.
William met his wife, Terri, through a friend and they were married in 1991. In September of 1991 Michael William, the first of their four children, was born. David Ray, their second son, was born in July of 1994. In March 1996 their third child, Monica Michelle, was born. In 2000 William moved his family to Polson. William worked several years at Harbor Light Furniture. Nicholas Alexander, their fourth child, was born in 2002. William became a reserve officer for the city of Polson in 2007. In 2008 William was hired as a fulltime officer for the Polson Police Department. At the time of William’s death he was very proud to be a corporal for the City of Polson Police Department.