In Memory

Dave Burkhart, 1928-2008 Horticulturist, educator, and author Dave Burkhart of Hood River, Oregon, will be remembered as an authority on pear culture. He died on March 17 from myelodysplasia at the age of 79. Burkhart grew up in Montesano and Walla Walla, Washington. He earned a degree in history and education from Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho, where he met his wife, Rosalind. He then did graduate work at Washington State University and soon joined an uncle on his grandfather Dumas’s family orchard, Pomona Ranch, near Dayton, Washington. He helped manage the apple growing and packing operation for eight […]