Rulon Thurston Ashcroft
April 16, 1924 - March 21, 2016
Rulon Thurston Ashcroft was born in Hyde Park, Utah, on April 16, 1924, to Henry Dell Ashcroft and Myrle Thurston Ashcroft.
He grew up as the eldest of four siblings in that Cache Valley town, driving cows to the fields, thinning sugarbeets, and playing baseball with his friends.
He left Utah in the closing days of World War II to be trained as a radar technician for the U.S. Army Air Corps, serving honorably until he was discharged two years later. His education took him first to Utah State University, and then to North Carolina, where he earned a Master's Degree in Soil Chemistry.
Rulon eventually migrated to California, where he met and married Gail Wilson Burns. His young family grew over the years, first in Cache Valley and then in Southern California, where he was a researcher at UCLA.
He came to Reedley, California, in 1973 to work at the University of California Kearney Agricultural Field Station. Other employment followed, at Growers' Supply Hardware and Christian Brothers Winery, before he eventually retired from the UC system. The family lived in town for one year before moving to a rural property, where he indulged his gardening passion for the next 42 years.
The backyard was a personal laboratory for edible experiments that he shared with family and friends. He planted a profusion of trees (sometimes with more enthusiasm than with calculation), and vigorously transplanted, tilled, grafted, pruned, weeded, watered, and harvested, with a particular affinity for cacti. In time, a seedling from a Placerita Canyon acorn became an oak towering over the house.
He was a loving husband, devoted father, doting grandfather, eclectic reader, nature lover, political contrarian, Home Teacher, fly fisherman, math teacher, history student, winery chemist, Boy Scout leader, blood donor, college sports fan, ice cream enthusiast, encyclopedia reader, and musical lyric revisionist.
As a faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he served in various capacities throughout his life.
Rulon is survived by his wife of 54 years, Gail; son Peter and his wife Sheryl Schindler; daughter Alison Hawes and her husband Bill; son Carl and his wife Celia; son Andy and his wife Afsaneh Zolfaghari; daughter Amanda Parrette and her husband Dwayne; daughter Heather and her husband Dylan Cardiff; and daughter Amy and her husband Jeff Kim.
He doted on his 15 grandchildren - Matt, Nick, Sam, Tyler, Max, Claire, Henry, Alice, Zoraya, Kaveh, Garrett, Zoe, Logan, Luke, and Sydney-and great-grandson, Teddy.
He is also survived by his sister Wanda Smith and her husband Darell of Logan, Utah; brother Marriner of Logan, Utah; and sister Annette Winn and her husband Rex of Rigby, Idaho. Rulon's brother Adrian died in infancy.
Rulon passed away at home, after a lifetime of good health, on the Spring morning of Monday, March 21, 2016. He had spent the previous day doing things he relished: pruning a tree, planting seeds, savoring the garden with Gail, and watching golf. He was just short of his 92nd birthday.
The family would be honored by donations in Rulon's memory to humanitarian and conservation causes.
Funeral services were held at Reedley Cemetery, where he was interred, on March 26, 2016.
found online at Hyde Park Herald Journal website 1 Apr 2016
April 16, 1924 - March 21, 2016
Rulon Thurston Ashcroft was born in Hyde Park, Utah, on April 16, 1924, to Henry Dell Ashcroft and Myrle Thurston Ashcroft.
He grew up as the eldest of four siblings in that Cache Valley town, driving cows to the fields, thinning sugarbeets, and playing baseball with his friends.
He left Utah in the closing days of World War II to be trained as a radar technician for the U.S. Army Air Corps, serving honorably until he was discharged two years later. His education took him first to Utah State University, and then to North Carolina, where he earned a Master's Degree in Soil Chemistry.
Rulon eventually migrated to California, where he met and married Gail Wilson Burns. His young family grew over the years, first in Cache Valley and then in Southern California, where he was a researcher at UCLA.
He came to Reedley, California, in 1973 to work at the University of California Kearney Agricultural Field Station. Other employment followed, at Growers' Supply Hardware and Christian Brothers Winery, before he eventually retired from the UC system. The family lived in town for one year before moving to a rural property, where he indulged his gardening passion for the next 42 years.
The backyard was a personal laboratory for edible experiments that he shared with family and friends. He planted a profusion of trees (sometimes with more enthusiasm than with calculation), and vigorously transplanted, tilled, grafted, pruned, weeded, watered, and harvested, with a particular affinity for cacti. In time, a seedling from a Placerita Canyon acorn became an oak towering over the house.
He was a loving husband, devoted father, doting grandfather, eclectic reader, nature lover, political contrarian, Home Teacher, fly fisherman, math teacher, history student, winery chemist, Boy Scout leader, blood donor, college sports fan, ice cream enthusiast, encyclopedia reader, and musical lyric revisionist.
As a faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he served in various capacities throughout his life.
Rulon is survived by his wife of 54 years, Gail; son Peter and his wife Sheryl Schindler; daughter Alison Hawes and her husband Bill; son Carl and his wife Celia; son Andy and his wife Afsaneh Zolfaghari; daughter Amanda Parrette and her husband Dwayne; daughter Heather and her husband Dylan Cardiff; and daughter Amy and her husband Jeff Kim.
He doted on his 15 grandchildren - Matt, Nick, Sam, Tyler, Max, Claire, Henry, Alice, Zoraya, Kaveh, Garrett, Zoe, Logan, Luke, and Sydney-and great-grandson, Teddy.
He is also survived by his sister Wanda Smith and her husband Darell of Logan, Utah; brother Marriner of Logan, Utah; and sister Annette Winn and her husband Rex of Rigby, Idaho. Rulon's brother Adrian died in infancy.
Rulon passed away at home, after a lifetime of good health, on the Spring morning of Monday, March 21, 2016. He had spent the previous day doing things he relished: pruning a tree, planting seeds, savoring the garden with Gail, and watching golf. He was just short of his 92nd birthday.
The family would be honored by donations in Rulon's memory to humanitarian and conservation causes.
Funeral services were held at Reedley Cemetery, where he was interred, on March 26, 2016.
found online at Hyde Park Herald Journal website 1 Apr 2016
Rulon Thurston Ashcroft
April 16, 1924 - March 21, 2016
Rulon Thurston Ashcroft was born in Hyde Park, Utah, on April 16, 1924, to Henry Dell Ashcroft and Myrle Thurston Ashcroft.
He grew up as the eldest of four siblings in that Cache Valley town, driving cows to the fields, thinning sugarbeets, and playing baseball with his friends.
He left Utah in the closing days of World War II to be trained as a radar technician for the U.S. Army Air Corps, serving honorably until he was discharged two years later. His education took him first to Utah State University, and then to North Carolina, where he earned a Master's Degree in Soil Chemistry.
Rulon eventually migrated to California, where he met and married Gail Wilson Burns. His young family grew over the years, first in Cache Valley and then in Southern California, where he was a researcher at UCLA.
He came to Reedley, California, in 1973 to work at the University of California Kearney Agricultural Field Station. Other employment followed, at Growers' Supply Hardware and Christian Brothers Winery, before he eventually retired from the UC system. The family lived in town for one year before moving to a rural property, where he indulged his gardening passion for the next 42 years.
The backyard was a personal laboratory for edible experiments that he shared with family and friends. He planted a profusion of trees (sometimes with more enthusiasm than with calculation), and vigorously transplanted, tilled, grafted, pruned, weeded, watered, and harvested, with a particular affinity for cacti. In time, a seedling from a Placerita Canyon acorn became an oak towering over the house.
He was a loving husband, devoted father, doting grandfather, eclectic reader, nature lover, political contrarian, Home Teacher, fly fisherman, math teacher, history student, winery chemist, Boy Scout leader, blood donor, college sports fan, ice cream enthusiast, encyclopedia reader, and musical lyric revisionist.
As a faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he served in various capacities throughout his life.
Rulon is survived by his wife of 54 years, Gail; son Peter and his wife Sheryl Schindler; daughter Alison Hawes and her husband Bill; son Carl and his wife Celia; son Andy and his wife Afsaneh Zolfaghari; daughter Amanda Parrette and her husband Dwayne; daughter Heather and her husband Dylan Cardiff; and daughter Amy and her husband Jeff Kim.
He doted on his 15 grandchildren - Matt, Nick, Sam, Tyler, Max, Claire, Henry, Alice, Zoraya, Kaveh, Garrett, Zoe, Logan, Luke, and Sydney-and great-grandson, Teddy.
He is also survived by his sister Wanda Smith and her husband Darell of Logan, Utah; brother Marriner of Logan, Utah; and sister Annette Winn and her husband Rex of Rigby, Idaho. Rulon's brother Adrian died in infancy.
Rulon passed away at home, after a lifetime of good health, on the Spring morning of Monday, March 21, 2016. He had spent the previous day doing things he relished: pruning a tree, planting seeds, savoring the garden with Gail, and watching golf. He was just short of his 92nd birthday.
The family would be honored by donations in Rulon's memory to humanitarian and conservation causes.
Funeral services were held at Reedley Cemetery, where he was interred, on March 26, 2016.
found online at Hyde Park Herald Journal website 1 Apr 2016
April 16, 1924 - March 21, 2016
Rulon Thurston Ashcroft was born in Hyde Park, Utah, on April 16, 1924, to Henry Dell Ashcroft and Myrle Thurston Ashcroft.
He grew up as the eldest of four siblings in that Cache Valley town, driving cows to the fields, thinning sugarbeets, and playing baseball with his friends.
He left Utah in the closing days of World War II to be trained as a radar technician for the U.S. Army Air Corps, serving honorably until he was discharged two years later. His education took him first to Utah State University, and then to North Carolina, where he earned a Master's Degree in Soil Chemistry.
Rulon eventually migrated to California, where he met and married Gail Wilson Burns. His young family grew over the years, first in Cache Valley and then in Southern California, where he was a researcher at UCLA.
He came to Reedley, California, in 1973 to work at the University of California Kearney Agricultural Field Station. Other employment followed, at Growers' Supply Hardware and Christian Brothers Winery, before he eventually retired from the UC system. The family lived in town for one year before moving to a rural property, where he indulged his gardening passion for the next 42 years.
The backyard was a personal laboratory for edible experiments that he shared with family and friends. He planted a profusion of trees (sometimes with more enthusiasm than with calculation), and vigorously transplanted, tilled, grafted, pruned, weeded, watered, and harvested, with a particular affinity for cacti. In time, a seedling from a Placerita Canyon acorn became an oak towering over the house.
He was a loving husband, devoted father, doting grandfather, eclectic reader, nature lover, political contrarian, Home Teacher, fly fisherman, math teacher, history student, winery chemist, Boy Scout leader, blood donor, college sports fan, ice cream enthusiast, encyclopedia reader, and musical lyric revisionist.
As a faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he served in various capacities throughout his life.
Rulon is survived by his wife of 54 years, Gail; son Peter and his wife Sheryl Schindler; daughter Alison Hawes and her husband Bill; son Carl and his wife Celia; son Andy and his wife Afsaneh Zolfaghari; daughter Amanda Parrette and her husband Dwayne; daughter Heather and her husband Dylan Cardiff; and daughter Amy and her husband Jeff Kim.
He doted on his 15 grandchildren - Matt, Nick, Sam, Tyler, Max, Claire, Henry, Alice, Zoraya, Kaveh, Garrett, Zoe, Logan, Luke, and Sydney-and great-grandson, Teddy.
He is also survived by his sister Wanda Smith and her husband Darell of Logan, Utah; brother Marriner of Logan, Utah; and sister Annette Winn and her husband Rex of Rigby, Idaho. Rulon's brother Adrian died in infancy.
Rulon passed away at home, after a lifetime of good health, on the Spring morning of Monday, March 21, 2016. He had spent the previous day doing things he relished: pruning a tree, planting seeds, savoring the garden with Gail, and watching golf. He was just short of his 92nd birthday.
The family would be honored by donations in Rulon's memory to humanitarian and conservation causes.
Funeral services were held at Reedley Cemetery, where he was interred, on March 26, 2016.
found online at Hyde Park Herald Journal website 1 Apr 2016
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