{"id":5724,"date":"2018-02-20T16:37:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gildedserpent.com\/cms\/?p=5724"},"modified":"2018-02-27T17:40:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T00:40:32","slug":"memorial-to-steve-e-duerksen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gildedserpent.com\/cms\/2018\/02\/20\/memorial-to-steve-e-duerksen\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial to Steve Duerksen"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>May 17, 1955 to Feb 20, 2018<\/h2>\n<h3><span class=\"footnotes\">last update: Feb 21, 2018 <\/span><\/h3>\n<p><em>Feel free to leave Steve stories and other comments at bottom of page<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snakeskin.com\/newfamphotos\/steve\/lieslSteveTrain.jpg\" alt=\"Steve\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Steve&#8217;s story about Glenn at Glenn&#8217;s memorial last year February 4, 2017<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C8XGYYfLZ9c\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snakeskin.com\/newfamphotos\/stevestractorgarden.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snakeskin.com\/newfamphotos\/stevestractorphotos\/tittletractorgarden.jpg\" alt=\"Steve's Tractor Garden\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snakeskin.com\/newfamphotos\/stevestractorgarden.htm\">Steve&#8217;s Tractor Garden<\/a> &#8211; published in 6-6-2002.<\/p>\n<p>the last I heard, Steve had 32 antique tractors- mostly Caterpillar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2015- Steve sent me these snake photos by Teddy of the rattler that passes through his house<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snakeskin.com\/newfamphotos\/steve\/rattlerNhouse.jpg\" alt=\"rattler\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snakeskin.com\/newfamphotos\/steve\/rattlerNhouseportrait.jpg\" alt=\"rattler\" width=\"500\" height=\"352\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo sent by Liesl<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snakeskin.com\/newfamphotos\/steve\/LieslSteveRosemaryAnabelle.jpg\" alt=\"Steve, Rosemary, Anabelle\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Steve, Rosemary (mother), and Annabell (Steve&#8217;s SO)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snakeskin.com\/newfamphotos\/steve\/googlemapStevesplace.jpg\" alt=\"Steve's place in Windomar\" width=\"500\" height=\"377\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Steve&#8217;s place in Windomar\/Temecula.<\/p>\n<p>Steve with his beloved Randi<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snakeskin.com\/newfamphotos\/steve\/StevewRanditractor.jpg\" alt=\"Steve and Randi his dog\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snakeskin.com\/newfamphotos\/steve\/Steve-tractor-covina-kids.jpg\" width=\"495\" height=\"335\" alt=\"Steve working on tractor with kids in covina\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Steve working on tractor with kids in covina<\/p>\n<p>Steve in ~ 1995 after picking up a tractor in our area-<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snakeskin.com\/newfamphotos\/steve\/steve-tractor-maybe1995.jpg\" width=\"374\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Steve and a new tractor\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Steve Jokes<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;My neighbor JAmie sent me a warning\u2026soemtimes warnings are bogus, but she says this one is real\u2026 it someone comes to your front door saying that they are checking for ticks due to the warm weather and asks you to take your clothes off and dance around witrh your arms up, DO NOT DO IT\u2026IT IS A SCAM! They only want to see you naked. Jaimie wishes she had got this warning yesterday. She feels so stupid\u2026.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snakeskin.com\/newfamphotos\/steve\/johhncardcollage.jpg\" alt=\"Steve's addition to Johnny's card\" \/><br \/>\nSteve&#8217;s funny addition to the Johnny&#8217;s birthday card<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.snakeskin.com\/newfamphotos\/steve\/johnnycard1.jpg\">front<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.snakeskin.com\/newfamphotos\/steve\/johnnycard2.jpg\">inside<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.snakeskin.com\/newfamphotos\/steve\/johnnycard3.jpg\">back<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Steve Artwork:<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snakeskin.com\/newfamphotos\/steve\/bugeyedspritedrawing.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" alt=\"Steve's church doodle of his bug eyed sprite\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snakeskin.com\/newfamphotos\/steve\/churchdoodles.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"496\" alt=\"church doodles\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Steve&#8217;s 2010 xmas card<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snakeskin.com\/newfamphotos\/steve\/Stevedoodlexmas2010.jpg\" alt=\"Steve's 2010 Xmas card\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Stories and photos to come:<br \/>\nRiding with Steve down steep curvy roads in the little yellow bug eyed sprite. The throttle cable broke and he had to wire the throttle wide open.<br \/>\nAs kids, Steve catching a rattle snake and us helping. Roger holding the pillow case as Steve sinks the snake into the bottom with a stick. Then ties it up, puts it in his backback and takes it to the biology teacher at school.<br \/>\nRoad rage in the desert with Steve in his old jeep and the other guy in a fancy car. Fancy car gets totaled.<br \/>\n-Looking for photos of Steve working overseas doing medical work<\/h4>\n<p>Please send photos to Lynette: editor@gildedserpent.com<br \/>\ni will add them to this page as I can.<br \/>\nthanks, l<\/p>\n<p>tentative-> March 3, 10 am service near Loma Linda, lunch at Janets house in Redlands<br \/>\nEvite to event. More wonderful pictures too!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.evite.com\/event\/02C8GOABGVDD2AAFQEPIDBSE2EY5NM\/activity?gid=00FFJWJAYU6B2EBQCEPIDEVSXOEXJQ&#038;show=5236273154490368&#038;showing=host_update&#038;utm_campaign=sms_update_msg_link&#038;utm_content=&#038;utm_medium=sms&#038;utm_source=SMS_UPDATE_EVENT\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">link to Evite<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 17, 1955 to Feb 20, 2018 last update: Feb 21, 2018 Feel free to leave Steve stories and other comments at bottom of page &nbsp; Steve&#8217;s story about Glenn at Glenn&#8217;s memorial last year February 4, 2017 Steve&#8217;s Tractor Garden &#8211; published in 6-6-2002. the last I heard, Steve had 32 antique tractors- mostly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gildedserpent.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5724"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gildedserpent.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gildedserpent.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gildedserpent.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gildedserpent.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gildedserpent.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gildedserpent.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gildedserpent.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gildedserpent.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}