Ivan Risdon Jr. passed away March 1, 2014. He was born to Ivan Sr. and Alice Risdon on July 30, 1920, the eldest of four children, including two sisters, Alice and Juanita, and younger brother Dan.
The family moved to Issaquah from Morgan Street in Seattle in 1936.
Ivan worked for his father helping install furnaces for the Risdon Coal Stoker Co., as well as working at the family’s greenhouse operation, a onetime fixture of old Issaquah along Highway 10.
During World War II, he joined his country’s armed forces, serving as a technician maintaining the nation’s war planes. During this time, he married his longtime sweetheart Gertrude Anderson, the love of his life and soulmate of 69 years of marriage.
After the war, he went to work for The Boeing Co. and moved to the permanent family home along Issaquah-Hobart Road. Here, he had his greatest challenges: running a family farm, working full time and raising four boys, Ron, Glenn, Gary and Mark.
Among his lifelong values were honesty and hard work. He will be remembered for these things by all those who knew and loved him.
He was preceded in death by Gertrude and Gary.
Services will be March 15 at 1 p.m. at Floral Hills Cemetery.