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Jenny Kellogg Broadhead posted a condolence
Sunday, February 10, 2019
I'm shocked and really sorry to hear of Dana's passing! Wow! Never thought that would happen..he was always a tough guy, but life does get the best of us eventually. I just found this page so sorry it has taken me this long to write. First time I met Dana was in school in 1970.. Mead High School, Mead, WA. and he came up to me one day and said, hi you know what we have something in common. I said what? Your last name is Kellogg and I was born and raised in Kellogg, Idaho! I was NOT impressed, but then I was just a naive teenager. He eventually impressed me time after time throughout the years. We went out off and on and seemed he was always around somewhere. We had some good times, some hair raising events and some good quiet moments. He was always a gentleman and treated me and everyone around him kindly. Life has it's up and downs for all of us and Dana had his fair share too. I have a hundred stories I could tell about him, but that would take a book. On thing I can say is my life would be much different that it is without knowing him. RIP my friend and meet you on the other side, the right side of God! Hugs and Love too you and condolences to his family and friends. What a wonderful tribute page for him.. God Bless, Jenny
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Susie (Taylor) Lowwe posted a condolence
Saturday, July 13, 2013
I'm so sorry to hear about Dana's passing. Dana and I went to school together....grade school through high school. He always made me smile.
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Dante Bisaro posted a condolence
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Memories of Dana Edwon Bisaro by his Brother Dante Virgil Bisaro
I remember my Dad telling me once that there were two types of people in this world, ones who have problems and ones who lie. I guess to a point that saying would fit most of us. Who wants to share the bad things or air their dirty laundry to everyone? It much easier to say all is well when we know darn well it isn't. Even making things sound better than they appear, accentuate the positive and decentuate the negative. It's much easier to fake happiness even if there is none. We figure if we hide things nobody will notice. I guess we don't give others much credit as most of what we try to hide is pretty obvious to others. I guess what I'm saying is that we all have problems, struggles, things we strive to overcome and things even though we try we just can't seem to conquer. I think they call that life.
Dana struggled with life like all of us do. I think it's sometimes more difficult for those who are particularly gifted. Dana was in fact genius, brilliant in so many ways. All who knew Dana knew what potential he possessed and throughout his life there were many peaks and valleys. I think the gifted sometimes have much higher highs followed by much lower lows than perhaps most of us and so it was with Dana. All who are here have experienced Dana during those struggles. Those who know who they are and why they are put here on Earth are the lucky ones. I often wonder what our purpose in this world is. Is it to accumulate, no? Is it to have fun, no? Is it to just take up space like so many do, no? Actually those of you who are Christians know the Biblical answer. But there is more as we have a life to live within that process too. Like I said, you're lucky if you know but sometimes it's something we may not even think about or know we did. It could be an act or deed that made a difference in someone else's life that influenced them in a positive way and put them on the right path. It could be to be in the right place at the right time to save a child from drowning or be there for someone in need or to take a bullet that was intended for someone else, who knows. The list of possibilities is endless and I think everyone can recall an instance of such things. For Dana it may have been having a Son who in return had four sons and a daughter. That's six precious lives we would have never known. Now that we do have Jory, Bailey, Hunter, Tanner, Nathan and Brandi I can't imagine life without them. What should have been his treasure became mine and for that I owe him. Six precious lives to carry on after him. Thanks Dana.
My earliest memories of Dana were always of him being missing in action and of Mom telling me to" go find your brother". Dana never could keep track of time. Mom always gave us a time to be home, Dana never made that deadline. He got lost in time no matter what he was doing. He really got into whatever he was doing. I remember one time when he was probably 8 or 9 years old he wandered off and everyone was looking for him. We looked and looked and couldn't find him anywhere. After several hours he showed up with a handful of 1st and 2nd place ribbons he had won at a track meet. He just walked into a sporting event at the age of 8 or 9, signed himself up, competed and won several events. What 8 or 9 year old has that kind of confidence? Dad was pretty impressed with that and Dana didn't get in trouble that time. His ribbons hung on the wall in Dads office for a long time (I remember how much that tickled Dad). I also remember many times finding him and not being able to catch him and bring him home. He could always out run me and when I would finally get him home he would have the most incredible excuses to give to Mom and Dad. I used to think he must have spent the whole time he was missing concocting the excuse he was going use when he returned. Dana was a thinker, quick on the draw with words. It got him in trouble many times with some of the neighbor kids. I remember him running down the street screaming at the top of his lungs with several of the neighbor kids pursuing him. His mouth had gotten him in trouble again. He would always run straight to Me, Mom or Dad and hide behind us. Once he felt safe in our presence he'd feel a little emboldened and have a few comments for his pursuers. Dana never seemed to worry about later. It was always the here and now that he was concerned with. He'd deal with the consequences later. I'd often see him playing with the very ones who were pursuing him only a day earlier. He was the master of patching things up especially if meant saving him a good beating that he probably deserved. He was always pretty clever at getting out of a jam.
Dana did have a tender side. He would cry at the drop of a hat. He was the one in the family that wanted to have funerals for every critter found dead in our yard. I remember one time we had this dog named Greta. This dog must have been a kindred spirit to him as we never could keep it home. We'd go down to Colee Tonant's (the old guy down the street) and get the dog every night after school and as soon as we left for school the dog would go back to wandering and end up at Colee's house again. Greta had a few of her own problems. She chased cars and we could never break her of that and of course she ended up getting run over quite a few times before the big one. Dad and I were remodeling over at Sunnyside Drug when we got the news. We told Dana and of course he burst into tears. I mean weeping and wailing tears. Dad felt bad for Dana and asked him if he wanted a milkshake. This was back in the early 60's when they had the cafe in the store with a soda fountain. Dana stopped crying long enough to get his milkshake. He took the shake and headed out the door and after an hour or so came back to the store where we were working and told Dad he still felt pretty bad and could he have another milkshake. It didn't work that time but I have to admit it was a pretty good try.
Dana was always a little bigger than life. Plain old life was pretty boring to him. It seemed that things that were just weren't good enough and so he would embellish them to suit what he thought they should be, creating some pretty good stories. I'm sure most of you heard a few of them and maybe even repeated some of them. I know I did only to find out that it just didn't happen that way. Oh there were some good ones that floated around. I suppose that some of them could have happened and in his world perhaps they did. I guess we'll never know. Like I said, life just wasn't very interesting sometimes. It's sort of like a diamond that is flawed. They are able to take it and enhance it and make it better than it was ever intended to be. Dana could take something that happened and make it a little more interesting. I guess it was just the way he saw it or imagined it should be. I don't pretend to understand why. I guess he just needed things to be different. I guess we all wish we could make things the way we wanted them rather than the way they turned out. Perhaps it was just his way of coping, I just don't know nor does it matter anymore. I do know that where he is now things are better. I truly believe that he is with Mom and Dad now and that for the first time in his life he is free, truly free from all the things that weren't quite right. Dana accepted Christ at a very early age. In typical fashion he really got into it. He insisted that he be baptized and in true Dana fashion he dressed the part. Dana was always into dressing the part and learning the lingo. I remember him in his pure white outfit being dunked in the North Fork and coming up happy. That may have been the only time I ever saw him truly happy. It was short lived but very real to both him and me. This is what I cling to most. I believe that God is faithful and what he began he will finish. I believe that Dana is OK now and is living in peace with his Lord and Savior and Free from all the pain he suffered here on Earth. We miss you Dana and look forward to seeing you someday when it's our turn to cross over.
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Rick Chapman posted a condolence
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
The photos posted here are as follows:
The skiers is from about 1970 taken at Jackass Ski Bowl
The with the kids in bathing suits was taken at my cabin on the Pend Oreille River in about 1991. The woman is his then wife; Kay; the children are Kay's kids; Jennifer and Michael.
The one on the boat is from about 1992 when Dana tried his hand at crab fishing. It was taken in West Port Washington.
The one with the line of people is from 1993 when I graduated from WSU. The people are Ray, Rick & Myrtle Chapman, Kay & Dana.
The one with Dana under the plague was taken later in 93 on a trip to Denver.
The one with Dana wearing sunglasses was taken in 2007 at a small multi-year class reunion at the park in Kellogg.
The one with Dana standing in a green shirt and blue jeans was taken in 2009.
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lennie currie posted a condolence
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Danny and family I am so sorry for your loss. Dana was a friend and I have many fond memories of our big adventures around the neighborhood when we were young May God bless you. Lennie.
