Ivan Walker Harker had been back in Lewisville for a while. He had moved to Spokane at some point after the divorce and had a heart attack there. After that, he moved home — back to the north side of the canal in Lewisville, the same patch of ground where Norman had grown up. He bought a trailer, dug a new septic tank, put it on the old well, and built a woodworking shop beside it. He turned bowls on a lathe, canned vegetables from the garden, and entered tomato-growing contests with the neighbors.

Norman was in Vancouver, a year and a half into his new job with Clark County, when the call came. It was Uncle Eldon — Ivan’s younger brother — phoning from Idaho.

Ivan died in December 1981 of heart failure. He was 58. The same enlarged heart that Norman had always worried about in Van had taken his father.

Norman drove to Lewisville with Marilyn and, as best he recalls, all the kids. Van came too. The funeral was conducted by Eldon, who was serving as a bishop at the time. A bishop from Spokane — bald, someone Ivan had grown close to — drove all the way down to speak. He told stories and jokes about Ivan. Norman remembers it as “quite humorous” and genuinely moving: “It was kind of neat.”

Ivan was buried at the Lewisville Cemetery, Jefferson County, Idaho.

The woodworking tools from Ivan’s shop — the lathe, the other equipment — eventually came to Norman. He kept them.