![]() ![]() It has to do with understanding what people need. “She showed me what hospitality is all about. Wharton topped the roots blues music charts for 12 weeks, and has garnered recognition from Jimmy Buffett and news outlets like CNN and NPR’s “All Things Considered” and “Morning Edition.” A force in both culinary and music worlds, Wharton has also been featured in “GQ,” “Living Blues” and “Gourmet Magazine.” Eating was always a passion of his, with the principles behind sharing food stemming from his mother’s nurturing. Wharton moved from his hometown Orlando to Tallahassee where he continued perfecting his slide guitar blues. Around the same time he taught himself to play the guitar. He started out as a drummer in his junior high school band. Sixty years in music has given Wharton several lessons in community building. It’s evolved into this mixed media performance that I think of as a soul-shouting picnic of rock and roll brotherhood.” “Having food there is just another kind of expression as far as I’m concerned. “You share yourself with your audience,” explains Wharton. For his upcoming Word of South Festival appearance audiences can get a taste of the famous gumbo while enjoying excerpts from Wharton’s new album and memoir, “The Life and Times of Blind Boy Billy.” Now cooking is an immersive part of his show, and the moniker “Sauce Boss” has stuck for good. Previously, Wharton had only carried a few of his hot sauce bottles with him to performances to make some money on the side. “I made a big pot of gumbo onstage using my hot sauce and a recipe inspired by for New Year's Eve 1990,” says Wharton. Wharton asked if he could add his “Liquid Summer” hot sauce into the bubbling mix, and the rest was history. He dipped into the kitchen and saw Shirley Neal - swamp blues master Kenny Neal’s wife - stirring up a big pot. For information, directions, or condolence messages to the family, visit scent of freshly cooked gumbo wafted through the recording studio where musician Bill Wharton was working on his first national record release. Box 702, Asbury Park, NJ 07712, or Big Brothers Big Sisters of Monmouth County, 305 Bond Street, Asbury Park, NJ, 07712. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in memory of William to Haven Hospice, 65 James Street, Edison, NJ 08818, Asbury Park Little League, P.O. Doyle New Jersey Veterans Cemetery, Arneytown. Interment will follow in Brigadier General William C. Relatives and friends are invited to attend his 9:00 AM funeral service on Monday, Januat the funeral home. On behalf of Bill, the family encourages you to celebrate his life and wear bright colors to his visitation. He is survived by his wife of 32 years, Paula Boss of Millstone children, Nancy Mazzola and her husband, Paul of Langhorne, PA, Cory Boss and his wife, Viktoria of Ocean Grove, Caitlin Biafore and her husband, Mark of Middletown, and Christopher Boss of Riviera Beach, FL eleven grandchildren several great grandchildren and a sister, Linda Toscano of West Milford.Ī visitation will be held at the Clayton & McGirr Funeral Home, 100 Elton-Adelphia Road (Route 524), Freehold Township on Sunday, Janufrom 1:00 to 5:00 PM. Bill liked to stay active and biked over 200 miles at the age of 83.īill was predeceased by his son, William Michael Boss in 2014. Together they spent their 30th wedding anniversary on a river cruise down the Danube River. He also enjoyed raising Standardbred horses on their horse farm. He loved traveling with his wife, Paula, especially to Europe and the Caribbean. Bill had worked as the Store Manager of Shop Rite for Smutko Enterprises for 25 years and most recently was the Director of Operations for Shop Rite in Hunterdon County for 10 years. He had lived in Old Bridge and East Brunswick before settling in Millstone 34 years ago. ![]() In his retirement from the police department, Bill worked in the loss prevention department of Wakefern Food Corporation. In the 1960’s, he trained at the State Police Academy in Sea Girt as well as a narcotics school in Washington and went on to become an Old Bridge Township Police Officer, retiring in the early 1970’s. After serving in the Air Force, Bill worked as an ironworker. He was born and raised in Englewood and proudly served in the United States Air Force as a flight engineer where he taxied planes during the Korean War. William “Bill” Boss, Jr., 86, of Millstone passed away on Tuesday, Januat JFK Medical Center, Edison. ![]()
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