Marion County GaArchives Obituaries.....Orton, Robert Joseph  June 30, 2021
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Way- Watson Funeral Home BV GA Posted  June 2021
Robert Joseph Orton
March 1, 1947 ~ June 30, 2021 (age 74


Robert “Bob” J. Orton, 74, passed peacefully in his home on Wednesday, June 30, 
2021.

Mr. Orton was born March 1, 1947, to Ashbel (A.J.) and Wilma Groover Orton in 
West Palm Beach, Florida. After graduating from Palm Beach High School, he 
volunteered for the United States Marine Corps and served in Vietnam from 1966-
1968. He returned to south Florida to work alongside his father and eventually 
take over his family’s business, Orton Construction.

Mr. Orton lived in West Palm Beach until 1991, where he loved to hunt, fish, and 
dive. He ran a small seafood shop, Oreo Seafood, where he sold the bounty of his 
catches. He was an innovator and enjoyed building buggies and airboats, which he 
took out deep into the Florida wilderness.

Mr. Orton left bustling south Florida to build a rural paradise in Tazewell, 
Georgia, where, mostly in flip flops, he had a successful career as a poultry 
farmer and cattle rancher. He prided himself on conservation of Georgia wildlife 
so his family would have turkeys and deer to hunt and fish to catch; as he was 
known for saying, “Leave some for seed.” He enjoyed working, hunting, and 
fishing alongside his children on the family farm.

Throughout his life, Mr. Orton valued few things more than nature, his family, 
and a hard day’s work. In his spare time, he enjoyed reading, training hog dogs, 
and feeding his posse of hummingbirds. Bob’s family remembers him as 
disciplined, witty, and a loving father. He was known for his towering stature 
and booming voice that brought out the best in people with a stern word or well-
timed joke and for selling the freshest eggs in Tazewell.

He took great pride in investing in those around him, and he lives on in each of 
his surviving family members: his wife of 37 years, Laura, his children Tara 
Orton Kime of West Palm Beach, FL, Judy Orton Grissett (Robert) of Americus, GA, 
Bolin Joseph Orton (Tami) of Roca, NE, and Ginger May Orton (Rudolfo Muro Felix) 
of Lubbock, TX, his brother-in-law Glenn Riveira of Buena Vista, GA, and six 
grandchildren Job, Bethel, Aletheia, and Ruth Grissett, Briley Johnson, and 
Sawyer Orton, brother, Pete Orton (Carrie) of West Palm Beach, FL, and sister, 
Judy Moreno of Sebring, FL. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death 
by his brother, Jim Orton and sister, Sandy Mullins.

Bob has told his family he wishes to forgo a funeral and instead have a 
celebration of life memorial service on the farm in the fall, when family 
members from Florida and Texas can “come hunt and visit for a while.” His ashes 
will be spread according to his choice—on the family’s farm.

Way-Watson Funeral Home, 1052 Dr. Deryl Hart Road, Buena Vista, Georgia has been 
entrusted with these arrangements.

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