David Lavern Bischoff, a resident of Clark County for more than sixty years, died peacefully on August first at the age of ninety-three.
He was well known among the farming community as both an expert on modern farming and a farmer himself. Active in the Mormon community all his life, he inspired others with his warmth, intelligence, strength, and generosity.
He was born in Bearlake County, Idaho, one of fourteen siblings. His parents were Minnie Lashbrook and David L. Bischoff, descendants of early settlers in Geneva, Idaho, a farm town in the Thomas Fork Valley along the Oregon Trail. Dave's early life was shaped by Mormon pioneer culture and the rigors of ranching and sheep herding in the Rocky Mountains.
He worked to put himself through school starting at the age of twelve and graduated from Utah State Agricultural College with a degree in entomology.
At the beginning of World War II he worked in Washington DC for the Carnegie Institute working on calculations and magnetic mapping of Icelandic Harbors to aid in mine detection. In Washington he met Miss Eudora Lee West, a young woman from Memphis, Tennessee then working in the War Department in the Air Corps section. They married in 1941.
The couple traveled across the country during the war as Dave established Victory Gardens for the US Dept. of Agriculture. They lived in Moscow, Idaho, then Opportunity and Fife, Washington before settling in the Vancouver area. There Dave began a long career working to educate farmers as a representative of the Washington Canners' Co-Op. He was active in many agricultural organizations throughout the state and was instrumental in bringing in new methods of farming and improved varieties of crops to the county.
At the same time, he and Eudora were developing a farm out of twenty acres of forested land in Hazel Dell. They built a house with their own hands from the ground up and lived there for fifty years. Dave's main crops were Bartlett pears and raspberries, in the early years predominantly strawberries and various grains for malt. Dave retired from Washington Canners to become a full-time farmer in 1972. The Bischoff Farm was well known for its delicious strawberries, raspberries, beans, pears, and peaches. Dave farmed until the age of seventy-nine. In his later years he resided at home on a remnant of the former land that he had pioneered.
Dave held many offices in the Mormon Church where he found a supportive and sustaining community during Eudora's long final illness and in subsequent years.
He will be greatly missed by his many friends as well as his son David Jr.; his daughter, Diana; grandchildren, Adam and Andrew Herring; and three great-grandchildren.
EULOGY
by Dianna Lee
He was well known among the farming community as both an expert on modern farming and a farmer himself. Active in the Mormon community all his life, he inspired others with his warmth, intelligence, strength, and generosity.
He was born in Bearlake County, Idaho, one of fourteen siblings. His parents were Minnie Lashbrook and David L. Bischoff, descendants of early settlers in Geneva, Idaho, a farm town in the Thomas Fork Valley along the Oregon Trail. Dave's early life was shaped by Mormon pioneer culture and the rigors of ranching and sheep herding in the Rocky Mountains.
He worked to put himself through school starting at the age of twelve and graduated from Utah State Agricultural College with a degree in entomology.
At the beginning of World War II he worked in Washington DC for the Carnegie Institute working on calculations and magnetic mapping of Icelandic Harbors to aid in mine detection. In Washington he met Miss Eudora Lee West, a young woman from Memphis, Tennessee then working in the War Department in the Air Corps section. They married in 1941.
The couple traveled across the country during the war as Dave established Victory Gardens for the US Dept. of Agriculture. They lived in Moscow, Idaho, then Opportunity and Fife, Washington before settling in the Vancouver area. There Dave began a long career working to educate farmers as a representative of the Washington Canners' Co-Op. He was active in many agricultural organizations throughout the state and was instrumental in bringing in new methods of farming and improved varieties of crops to the county.
At the same time, he and Eudora were developing a farm out of twenty acres of forested land in Hazel Dell. They built a house with their own hands from the ground up and lived there for fifty years. Dave's main crops were Bartlett pears and raspberries, in the early years predominantly strawberries and various grains for malt. Dave retired from Washington Canners to become a full-time farmer in 1972. The Bischoff Farm was well known for its delicious strawberries, raspberries, beans, pears, and peaches. Dave farmed until the age of seventy-nine. In his later years he resided at home on a remnant of the former land that he had pioneered.
Dave held many offices in the Mormon Church where he found a supportive and sustaining community during Eudora's long final illness and in subsequent years.
He will be greatly missed by his many friends as well as his son David Jr.; his daughter, Diana; grandchildren, Adam and Andrew Herring; and three great-grandchildren.
EULOGY
by Dianna Lee
David Lavern Bischoff, a resident of Clark County for more than sixty years, died peacefully on August first at the age of ninety-three.
He was well known among the farming community as both an expert on modern farming and a farmer himself. Active in the Mormon community all his life, he inspired others with his warmth, intelligence, strength, and generosity.
He was born in Bearlake County, Idaho, one of fourteen siblings. His parents were Minnie Lashbrook and David L. Bischoff, descendants of early settlers in Geneva, Idaho, a farm town in the Thomas Fork Valley along the Oregon Trail. Dave's early life was shaped by Mormon pioneer culture and the rigors of ranching and sheep herding in the Rocky Mountains.
He worked to put himself through school starting at the age of twelve and graduated from Utah State Agricultural College with a degree in entomology.
At the beginning of World War II he worked in Washington DC for the Carnegie Institute working on calculations and magnetic mapping of Icelandic Harbors to aid in mine detection. In Washington he met Miss Eudora Lee West, a young woman from Memphis, Tennessee then working in the War Department in the Air Corps section. They married in 1941.
The couple traveled across the country during the war as Dave established Victory Gardens for the US Dept. of Agriculture. They lived in Moscow, Idaho, then Opportunity and Fife, Washington before settling in the Vancouver area. There Dave began a long career working to educate farmers as a representative of the Washington Canners' Co-Op. He was active in many agricultural organizations throughout the state and was instrumental in bringing in new methods of farming and improved varieties of crops to the county.
At the same time, he and Eudora were developing a farm out of twenty acres of forested land in Hazel Dell. They built a house with their own hands from the ground up and lived there for fifty years. Dave's main crops were Bartlett pears and raspberries, in the early years predominantly strawberries and various grains for malt. Dave retired from Washington Canners to become a full-time farmer in 1972. The Bischoff Farm was well known for its delicious strawberries, raspberries, beans, pears, and peaches. Dave farmed until the age of seventy-nine. In his later years he resided at home on a remnant of the former land that he had pioneered.
Dave held many offices in the Mormon Church where he found a supportive and sustaining community during Eudora's long final illness and in subsequent years.
He will be greatly missed by his many friends as well as his son David Jr.; his daughter, Diana; grandchildren, Adam and Andrew Herring; and three great-grandchildren.
EULOGY
by Dianna Lee
He was well known among the farming community as both an expert on modern farming and a farmer himself. Active in the Mormon community all his life, he inspired others with his warmth, intelligence, strength, and generosity.
He was born in Bearlake County, Idaho, one of fourteen siblings. His parents were Minnie Lashbrook and David L. Bischoff, descendants of early settlers in Geneva, Idaho, a farm town in the Thomas Fork Valley along the Oregon Trail. Dave's early life was shaped by Mormon pioneer culture and the rigors of ranching and sheep herding in the Rocky Mountains.
He worked to put himself through school starting at the age of twelve and graduated from Utah State Agricultural College with a degree in entomology.
At the beginning of World War II he worked in Washington DC for the Carnegie Institute working on calculations and magnetic mapping of Icelandic Harbors to aid in mine detection. In Washington he met Miss Eudora Lee West, a young woman from Memphis, Tennessee then working in the War Department in the Air Corps section. They married in 1941.
The couple traveled across the country during the war as Dave established Victory Gardens for the US Dept. of Agriculture. They lived in Moscow, Idaho, then Opportunity and Fife, Washington before settling in the Vancouver area. There Dave began a long career working to educate farmers as a representative of the Washington Canners' Co-Op. He was active in many agricultural organizations throughout the state and was instrumental in bringing in new methods of farming and improved varieties of crops to the county.
At the same time, he and Eudora were developing a farm out of twenty acres of forested land in Hazel Dell. They built a house with their own hands from the ground up and lived there for fifty years. Dave's main crops were Bartlett pears and raspberries, in the early years predominantly strawberries and various grains for malt. Dave retired from Washington Canners to become a full-time farmer in 1972. The Bischoff Farm was well known for its delicious strawberries, raspberries, beans, pears, and peaches. Dave farmed until the age of seventy-nine. In his later years he resided at home on a remnant of the former land that he had pioneered.
Dave held many offices in the Mormon Church where he found a supportive and sustaining community during Eudora's long final illness and in subsequent years.
He will be greatly missed by his many friends as well as his son David Jr.; his daughter, Diana; grandchildren, Adam and Andrew Herring; and three great-grandchildren.
EULOGY
by Dianna Lee
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