“When dad talked to people, you’re either a king or a queen, a prince or a princess – unless you’re one of his kids and misbehaved,” said Clif Bolner’s son Tim, president of Bolner’s Fiesta Products.
In 1955, seeing that neighborhood grocery stores were going out of business, Clif Bolner acquired a fledgling spice business for $5,000 that became Bolner's Fiesta Products.Clifton Bolner, a San Antonio native who went by Clif and built a business on spices and seasonings from around the world, died at his Monte Vista home Tuesday at age 94.
Graduating with a business degree in January of that year, Bolner served as an officer at Kelly Air Force Base during the Korean War while also working as a partner and butcher at his father’s store, Bolner’s Grocery. Tim Bolner joined the company in 1971 and his brother Mike in 1973. Another brother, Chris, started in 1985 and is vice president of sales. Mike retired two years ago, but sisters Beverly and Mary also worked in the family business that now employs dozens of people, along with several members of the third generation.
Bolner retired from the business in 2010. “He kept coming to work, but he was just advisory at that point,” Tim Bolner said.
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