Isaak, Wallace C. (1920-2009)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2010 Jan 11 p. 9

Birth date: 1920 Nov 9

text of obituary:

WALLACE C. ISAAK

Wallace C. Isaak, 89, of Reedley, Calif., died Dec. 8, 2009. He was born Nov. 9, 1920, to Cornelius K. and Lizzie (Duerksen) Isaak in Parlier.

He graduated from Dinuba High School and served in a forestry Civilian Public Service camp near Placerville during World War II. He grew up on a farm in Dinuba and maintained his farm interests in the area as the owner of WMJ Farms Inc. He was a faithful member and active for many years as a deacon and usher at Reedley Mennonite Brethren Church.

He married Irma Koop of Hillsboro, Kan., whom he met while attending Tabor College. They were married for 52 years. She preceded him in death in 2003, after which he moved into Palm Village Retirement Community in Reedley.

He was a product of a Russian-Mennonite home in which his father and his grandfather came to America from the Mennonite Ignatyevo Colony in 1913 through Baltimore, Md., and his mother’s family came to Kansas from Russia in the 1870s.

Survivors include two sons, Marc Isaak and his wife, Linda, and Joel Isaak and his wife, Judy, all of Dinuba; two daughters, Becky Warkentin and her husband, Marvin, of Dinuba, and Mary Wiens and her husband, Ron, of San Jose; two sisters, Katherine Kroeker of Shafter and Beverly Klassen of Arlington, Va.; seven grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held at Reedley Mennonite Brethren Church. Burial was in the Reedley City Cemetery.