four children, including two sister’s Alice, 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 Company, 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 countries armed forces serving as a crew chief maintaining the nation’s war planes.
During this time he married his long time sweetheart Gertrude Anderson, the love of his life and soul mate of 69 years
of marriage.
After the war he went to work for the Boeing Company and moved to their 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
