I just received information about Gene Isacco passing away a few days ago.
I had the great privilege to have known, ran dogs with and judged with Gene over the years. Gene lived less than 10 miles from me and oh how after someone is gone you wished you had spent so much more time with them.
Gene spent many summers out on the prairies training birddogs and has probably seen more good ones than most. He loved his family, the farm and spent much of his time at home, making the farm a place to run and train pointing dogs. He invited everyone to his grounds that had the passion, always showing them a fun and exciting day,
Gene was a quiet and gentle person, patience was his virtue and he had a real hidden sense of humor. You only needed to be near him for a short time to realize what a great man he was.
Gene was an engineer and never bragged about his accomplishments. I know of one of his greatest and would like to share with you. Gene worked for Joy Cone Company. He engineered, developed and put into working status the machine that molds and cooks the ice cream cones, wraps the paper around the bottom of the cone, stacks them, puts them into a sleeve and the puts sleeves into a container and sealed the container to form a case of them to ship. He told me all about going to Germany where some of the best machining went on at the time and coming home to work on the above. This sounds like everyday engineering, but I can only think of at the very least of the problems, how many cones I might have broken, trying to get that paper on there tight.
Gene will be remembered for his kindness, demeanor and love of the game. Rest in peace my friend.
Gene was a great guy who was a big help to me in the early 80's when we first established the Black Ash Grouse Trial Club. He was one of the first people to step up and judge our shooting dog stakes back when we ran seven one-hour courses per day and the judges had to walk all of them, sometimes for three consecutive days. I will always remember an early fall training session with him at Black Ash when he brought a litter of seven pups and to my surprise ran all of them at the same time. They found multiple broods of young grouse and we had birds flying everywhere, often with four or five pups pointing and backing each other He loved it and we had a blast. The world has lost a good human.
on 6/18/2025, 3:44 pm