Spring Valley Cemetery ~ Joel Bruce Redon ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Redon, Joel Bruce
LAST: Redon FIRST: Joel MID: Bruce
GENDER: M MAIDEN NAME:  TITLE: 
BORN: 15 Nov 1961 DIED: 6 Jun 1995 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Portland, Multnomah Co., Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Sonoma Co., California
NOTES: 

[Grandmother is Daesy Cochran Chance & Great-Grandparents Vivian and Rosie Mae (Matthews) Cochran, also buried at Zena]

Marriage of Parents - Earle Didzun & Vivian Chance md 25 Aug 1956, Marion co, Oregon

OBITUARY: 

There will be no service.
Mr. Redon died of complications from AIDS on Tuesday, June 6, 1995, at age 33.
He was born Nov. 15, 1961, in Portland.
A writer, he had published three novels and received several writing grants.
In the mid-1980s, Mr. Redon moved to California from Portland.
He is survived by his parents, V'Anne and Earle Didzun of Lake Oswego; sister, Gayle Mickey of Lake Oswego; brother, Andrew Didzun of Lake Oswego; and friend Joan Leslie Taylor of Guerneville, Calif.
Disposition by cremation with private interment in Zena.
Remembrances: Oregon Historical Society and Cascade AIDS Project.
Oregonian, The (Portland, Oregon) 23 Jun 1995, pg B6
Arrangements: Pacific Interment in San Francisco.

INSCRIPTION: 

Joel Redon
1961 - 1995
To have placed the impossible work
on the rainbow's arc, the it 
would have all been said.

SOURCES: 

Sucy Survey & Photographs
CDI 1940-1997

Oregon Marriage Index
Oreg. 23 Jun 1995, pg B6

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