Hi dad!!! Just saying Hi and I love you (as I do every night in prayer) but found this fun picture and thought you would get a kick out of Steve and TJ in the background!!

I am having a hard time figuring out what to say but I started at Brede in the summer of 1971 and don't  remember the first time I met him. I worked in the office & he worked out  in the back getting ready to go to show site.  We would say hi to 
each other. After he got sick he would come to the Christmas parties. He was a really nice person.




PaPa Don,
We will never forget the love you gave. Your smile, hugs, laugh, and jokes will be forever treasured.
The girls miss you
Much respect and Love always


There will be a missing spot in my heart and in our family. He was the sunshine in my sky and my hero growing up. Oh how I love my daddy

When I started working at Brede, Donnie found out I graduated from Edison High School, the same school he graduated from, we started going to a few Edison football games with Mark Grant. That was great fun. He also told everyone I was an Edison Homecoming Queen, of course he was joking around. I miss the jokes & stories he would tell. 
I could pick out his smiling face in a crowd.
Donnie will be greatly missed.

I worked at Brede with Donald he was always such a funny and kind person to be around he is going to be greatly missed by everyone who knew and worked with him.  

Every Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas or anytime I’m just over visiting he would tell me 2 stories that would make him and myself laugh every time. He would tell me about how when I was a baby and him and my oldest brother Billy were watching me and did not know how to change my poopy diaper so they just “made things up as they went” or the time I wouldn’t take a nap so he took me on a walk around the yard and I looked at his car and said “hey that’s a nice car.. we should go for a ride!” And then through his laugh he’d barley make out that I didn’t even make it to the end of the driveway before I was a asleep! He was a great man and I’m proud of my Marine corps grandfather for his service to this country and his dedication to being a great husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather. He will be loved and missed forever.

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Donald was preceded in death by his parents; three brothers; two sisters; and granddaughter, Taylor.  

Donald will be greatly missed by his loving wife of 41 years, Sharon; children, Scott Fisher, Rick Fisher, Kim (Steve) Berg, Stacy (Jon) Guck, Chris (Tom) Gnerer; grandchildren, Billy, Jared, Travis, TJ, Luke, Matt, Amanda, Magan, John, Tanya, Zach, and Dylan; 12 ½ great-grandchildren; mother of sons Scott and Rick, Barbara Fisher

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Donald Mathew Sandvik

August 29, 1938 – November 3, 2019

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