Obituary of D. Roger Landrud

Roger Landrud died from cancer at Franciscan Hospice House in Tacoma, WA. Born in Elmhurst, IL, he was son of Oscar and Zella (Hill) Landrud of Lombard IL and Cable WI. He is survived by his wife of 52 years Lee, three children Bryce, Cindy, and Brett, 7 grandchildren, and sister Carolyn Elliott of Stillwater MN. Roger was educated at Beaver Dam Academy, Denison University '53 B.A. degree, and U. WA. '59 M.A. degree. From 1959 until 1963 he taught school at Cascade Jr Hi and Auburn HS, then as professor of Social Studies Highline College where he retired 1994. An avid golfer, he was President of Board of North Shore Golf Course, Tacoma and long time leader of the Legends' club tournaments. He coached his own children's soccer and baseball teams and assisted his grandchildren's coaches all his adult life. He designed and remodeled the home, loved doing crosswords, and reading. He lead Great Books discussions in the area and participated for 50 years. The family traveled widely, including being early citizen diplomats on the Peace Cruise on the Volga River in 1983, and presenting forums on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict after a sabbatical study in Jerusalem with sister-in-law June and Tony Bing in 1986. Donations appreciated to Group Health Hospice mailed to Group Health Community Foundation, 1730 Minor Ave, Ste.1500, Seattle WA 98101, and to www.habitatforhumanity.org The Roger Landrud Memorial Golf Tournament on Aug. 8th starts at noon. For tee times call North Shore Golf Course 1 800 447 1375, His Memorial Service there is 10 a.m. Aug.8th. TRIBUTE TO DAD, from son Brett Like a ship at sea, the water it touches is "moved". The wake is proof of it, going on and on. Forever widening. Forever "moving on" to touch and influence. Our lifelong passages through the waters of life, whether a lake, sea, or ocean, will influence that body of water until the wake is dissipated or forgotten. When a person's life wake widens, it spawns and influences new life vessels with their own wakes, and on and on, into different lakes, seas, and oceans. So as one ship passes, the waters are forever moved. The bigger the vessel, or persona, ther larger the displacement, or influence, and the more encompassing the wake they create in life becomes. Christopher Columbus: the Mayflower. Abraham Lincoln: the Monitor and Merimac. Winston Churchill: the Titanic. My father, Roger Landrud: the Greenpeace. Touching many, refusing few, a ship of knowledge, equality, fair play, historic enlightenment, and humility he was. Ask his pupils and peers, they remember, whether a handstand on a chair, challenge from podium, grace on diving board, focus at tee box. Those who were lucky enough to be touched by his life's wake will be forever enlightened and bouyed by waves he set in motion. I, but a needy offspring, have felt the energy of his propulsion, the humbleness of his prop wash displaced, the knowing my ship was born from a beautiful vessel whose hull remains beneath me to guide me and to keep a course true to his wake. Bless the integrity of the hull, and the wakes, that rock you through life! Blessed am I to have traveled with a ship of such integrity! Its wake will comfort and inspire me until by anchor cannot be weighed.