Ronald R. Easterday

Easterday, Ronald Found peace in the arms of Jesus on August 19, 2006. Devoted friend and partner of Lee Robbins. Dear beloved brother of Valene Bates and Allan (Rose) Easterday. President of Easterday Fluid Technologies, Inc of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, member of Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, MidWest Food Processors Association, FPSMA and The Guard Society. Ron worked as technical director and plant manager at his father's paint factories in West Allis, Milwaukee and Racine. As a young boy, Ron worked in ''The Donut Hole'' in Kenosha making donuts and donated his hard earned money to his father to help towards building the first Easterday paint factory. His unmatchable charisma and magnetic personality with people, along with the tremendous respect, admiration and dedication from all his co-workers, helped build the paint business into one of the most popular in the metropolitan Milwaukee area. He often would get out of bed in the middle of the night with a solution to an impossible formula, both in the paint business and in the jet ink business. Ron developed the first latex semi-gloss in the world. His father developed the first thermal sensitive spot indicator for the food processing industry in 1951. Shortly thereafter, Ron developed three different, advanced thermal sensitive jet fluids used for many years by the food processing industry. After retort processing the food containers, the color change of the fluid applied on to the exterior of each product provides assurance that each food container had reached a thermal cook process. Ron later developed a thermal sensitive jet ink for use in non-contact, continuous ink jet printers for the alpha-numeric ''Use Before'' product date code. This followed with the development of six different color changing thermal chromic jet inks used worldwide by the food processing and food container industry. After Ron's father died, he cared for his stroke-ridden mother of over 14 years. In addition, both of his mother's parents stayed with him yearly, and after his grandfather died, he had his grandmother live with him the greater portion of each year. The kindness, thoughtfulness, and love Ron has unselfishly given throughout his life, will forever be remembered by all those who have had the privilege to have met him, worked with or for him, or loved him Funeral Services Wednesday, August 23, 2006, 1pm at the MAX A. SASS & SONS GREENRIDGE CHAPEL. Interment West Lawn Memorial Park, Racine, Wisconsin. Visitation Wednesday, August 23, 2006 from 11am to 1pm at the Funeral Home.