Richard 'Dick' Skaer

December 12, 1936 - April 9, 2002

Dick was an active member of the San Marino Community Church. He lettered three consecutive years in basketball and track at South Pasadena High School. Before graduating in 1954, he was the recipient of the Weldon Fair Play Award and was elected to the California Scholarship Federation as a Scholar-Athlete. Dick attended UCLA where he played basketball under John Wooden and was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Shortly after graduating from UCLA in 1958 with a BA in Philosophy, he married Donna Crawford.

Dick and his family moved to British Columbia where he served as General Manager of Canplas Industries, a plastic pipe fitting manufacturing company. Eventually he moved his family to Barrie, Ontario, where he opened the eastern division of Canplas. In 1982 the family moved to Simi Valley where Dick formed his own company, Sherotec, Inc, a successful stainless steel fabrication company which he later sold to ITT Engineered Valves.

Upon his retirement in 1999, Dick and his second wife, Pat Miller Skaer, moved to the Portland, Oregon area, where they finished building their dream home in 2001. He was a loving husband, son, father, grandfather, and brother. He is survived by his wife, Pat; mother Una Skaer; daughters, Kathy Hixson, Debbie Beltz, Laurie Fernandez, and Sharon Woods; eight grandchildren; sisters Janet Skaer Ward (SPHS '51) and Barbara Schwind and many other caring family members and friends.

Pasadena Star-News, April 18, 2002