In loving memory
Don Marvin Pickard
February 8, 1942 – October 1, 2008
Lived 66 years
Vona Cemetery · Vona, Colorado
Life story
Parents: Harold & Rose (Tanner) Pickard
Siblings: Larry & Karen
Married: 1965 to Kathy Wetzel
Children: Camilla, Kirsten, Grant
Graduated CSU in Ag Journalism. After couple years working he retuned to farming with Father & Brother — Pickard Farms
Later owned AgWay Farms and a station (farm) in Australia
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The world Don knew
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1942
Born February 8
1949
Don was 7 when Gene Autry recorded "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
1958
Don was 16 when the Hula Hoop craze swept the country
1964
Don was 22 when the Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show
1976
Don was 34 when America celebrated its Bicentennial
1982
Don was 40 when Michael Jackson released "Thriller"
1991
Don was 49 when the Soviet Union dissolved
2004
Don was 62 when Facebook was launched
2008
Passed away October 1, age 66
Also resting here
The Pickard name at Vona Cemetery
Larry David Pickard1945 – 1995
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