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Joseph C. Kellogg
April 24, 1926 ~ March 21, 2011 (age 84) 84 Years Old Light a Candle
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Message from Gene Beisman
Mickey and I offer all our sympathy and love for your loss. Joe was a powerful and formative influence on my professional life from the spring of 1963 when he made a recruiting trip to Stanford to the Al Johnson Company in 1968 to the Kellogg Corporation in 1973 to the Obayashi litigation in 2002. We will miss him, but we will have wonderful memories.
Message from Larry True
I owe Joe a debt of gratitude for the three great and educational years I spent with Kellogg Corporation. I started when there were 12 people and left when there were over 30. I learned more from Joe and Mike than I did in the years that I spent getting my engineering degree. Thanks to Joe, I visited the wonderful state of Hawaii, one of Joe's favorites, many times. I always had the greatest respect for Joe and will always remember my reationship with him fondly.
Message from Cathy Mullowney
I was fortunate to know Joe. He had a compassionate, generous and wonderful spirit with a love for people, especially Kris, family and friends. We have lost a valuable proud individual who enjoyed life. My thoughts and prayers are with you Kris and his family.
Message from Jack Huskinson Jr
I am saddened by Joe’s passing and offer my sincere condolences to his family. Although Joe was my employer, he was also my mentor and friend. He instilled in me positive work ethics and self confidence, for which I will always be grateful. His seemingly never ending exuberance for life was always apparent, and touched the lives of many of those around him, including me. Joe once commented “We work hard…but have fun doing it….and play hard too”. I will always have fond memories of Joe and the Kellogg Corporation and the great times we had there, like the annual Christmas parties, Code 1 meetings, Joke Gift Exchange, just to name a few. One of my fondest memories was the famous family golf tournament at the Keystone Lodge in Colorado I was graciously invited to, that Joe sponsored. I am grateful to have known Joe and I know his legacy will live on. Mahalo nui loa Joe! We will miss you very much.
Message from Jay Halverson
Joe would be on everyone's list of "Super Gentleman". We will all miss him. RIP JCK.
Message from Robert Bolenbaucher
Your loss of a great father, husband, grandfather and uncle is my loss of a friend and the best employer in my work careers.
God be with you and comfort you.
Bob Bolenbaucher
God be with you and comfort you.
Bob Bolenbaucher
Message from Pam Tittes
Please accept my sincere condolences for your loss. I know everyone who ever worked for Joe loved and respected him. I know I did. He will be missed.
Message from Peggy Bliss Ickis
We were together in a bridge club in the 70s and always enjoyed eacj other.My condolences to the family.
Message from Mark Pedigo
I will miss Joe and will always be thankful to God for the blessing he has been in my life. He gave me the start in the business I am in and for that I am thankful. Joe was like a second father to me (and was only about 4 months younger than my father). His sense of humor, kindness, and overall fairness and integrity made an impact on me. I have many fond memories of Joe and one in particular that I look back on and laugh at even today. In 1999, Joe and I were in Salt Lake City at a trial and we left the attorneys office to go to the hotel. We were told the hotel was about 4-5 blocks away. We did not realize that blocks in downtown Salt Lake City were about a mile long. It probably took over 30 minutes to get there with me pushing Joe with one hand and pulling our luggage with another. I think I was the one who said we could just walk there. Joe kept his great sense of humor and 5 sweaty and long blocks later we laughed about it over a beer at the hotel bar. The world has lost a good man and is a better place because of Joe Kellogg.
Message from Forrest Garrison
Warm thoughts of Joe Kellogg will live in my memory forever. Sadly, I never had the pleasure of knowing Joe in person... but I have felt his strength and determination as I lived vicariously through part of his life from heart warming stories. Life's obstacles seemed to challenge Joe rather than hinder him. Whenever I drive through the Eisenhower Tunnel, pleasant thoughts of Joe will always come to mind, knowing how proud he must have felt to have ramrodded the team that fulfilled a dream of millions!
My heart goes out to Kris for her loss, to Virginia and her sisters for the loss of their hero, and to the many family and friends that lost such a true inspiration!
Thank you for sharing him.
My heart goes out to Kris for her loss, to Virginia and her sisters for the loss of their hero, and to the many family and friends that lost such a true inspiration!
Thank you for sharing him.
Message from Jerrie and Judie Eckelberger
Kris,
Judie, David, Krissy, John and I will always remember our great neighbors. Joe was an inspiration to all of us in never allowing polio to cripple him. He was a very productive and contributing person who always displayed tremendous optimism. His warmth and smile will be much missed. You and all of Joe's family and friends have our deepest sympathy.
Jerrie
Judie, David, Krissy, John and I will always remember our great neighbors. Joe was an inspiration to all of us in never allowing polio to cripple him. He was a very productive and contributing person who always displayed tremendous optimism. His warmth and smile will be much missed. You and all of Joe's family and friends have our deepest sympathy.
Jerrie
Message from Don Babcock
What a great man! Joe was an example of industry, innovation, tenacity and integrity. But more than that, he was a good man and a loyal friend. Joe was my employer, but he was also a mentor and encourager. He always saw possibilities; obstacles as opportunities. He stood by me in loss and discouragement and believed in me; often more than I believed in myself. I am a better man for his influence in my life. I am thankful to God for having had him as a friend. Joe leaves the world a better place than he found it and we will miss him.
To his family, my deepest condolences and prayer for your comfort in this time.
Don
To his family, my deepest condolences and prayer for your comfort in this time.
Don
Message from Ranelle and Jeff Bensch
We will never forget the wonderful times and many lessons learned during our time with Uncle Joe. Although a short period in his outstanding life, he was such an influential person in our lives during our collegiate and post-college formative years. We are forever thankful for having known Joe. To his family, we think of you often and you have our deepest condolences.
Jeff and Ranelle
Jeff and Ranelle
Message from Robert Pratt
More than any other single person, Joe steered the course of my career at a critical time. In the fall of 1970, Joe was a guest speaker in one of my senior-level classes at CU in Boulder. I was so impressed with his grasp of the factors influencing the construction industry, and his sense of fairness, and his vision for positive solutions to problems facing the industry, that I wanted to go to work for him immediately after graduation. His advice to me was to go get 10 years of experience in the field with a contractor and then come back and talk to him. That was exactly what happened. He gave me a referral to a Denver-based general contractor client. I worked for them for 10 years, and in 1980, I became a proud employee of Kellogg Corporation. During my tenure at KC I got my first opportunity to testify as an expert witness. Since that time I have been blessed with continuous opportunities to be a consultant or testifying expert (and in a biblical sense "bear witness to the truth") in hundreds of construction cases. Joe was where I needed him to be over 40 years ago, and now I want each of his family members to know how much his spirit, and integrity, and mentoring has meant to me ever since. I had the opportunity to have lunch with him and some other Kellogg alumni a couple years ago, and I will never forget how wonderful it was to renew the connection. I will also never forget being a part of the "Kellogg Kraut Koncert Band and Ballet Society". I think I still have a cassette recording of our performance at one of the Kellogg Christmas parties. Indeed, as others have said, at Kellogg, we worked hard, but we had a lot of fun doing it.
My deepest sympathies and condolences to all members of Joe's family. Joe was truly a giant of a man, and he will be missed greatly.
My deepest sympathies and condolences to all members of Joe's family. Joe was truly a giant of a man, and he will be missed greatly.
Message from Larry Gallegos
Joe is one of the finest individuals I had the pleasure to work with during my early career. My condolences to Joe's family and friends who I know will miss him greatly.
Message from Mike Wilkinson
One of Joe Kellogg's many, many talents was speaking before an audience and he was very, very good. He could tell jokes like Johnny Carson and deliver his subject manner in a way that left the audience always wanting to hear more. Joe was Al Johnson's chief engineer when he hired me in 1964 -- a tour of duty that brought both of us to Colorado and the challenge of the Eisenhower Tunnel. And he hired me again in 1971 while he was creating the Kellogg Corporation. When I left Kellogg in 1990 Joe and I had known each other for 26 years. He taught me a lot. He was a good man.
Message from Jeanne Ramer
My memory of Joe Kellogg was that he had a commanding presence and was such a nice person. Looking back, I really appreciate the opportunity I had to work for Kellogg Corporation because I learned so much. When I was leaving the company, he was in San Francisco and invited me to lunch. I was so impressed that he would make the time in his schedule to have lunch with me. I know his family, friends, peers and employees will miss him, and remember him with fondness.
Message from Renee Gorman
Last year I visited Joe and Kris with my mother, Sally Johnson, (I'm sure you all remember her) and was amazed how good looking and engaging he still was and by how gracious Kris was. Thirty-six years ago when I worked at Kellogg Corp., while in highschool, my funniest memory is of running errands in his car, always trying to use the handbrake, but was not very good at it. Everyone at Kellogg Corp. joined together to make quite the family.
My mother worked hard for him and I know he was a great help to her while raising eight children on her own.
My prayers go out to his family. Kris, find strength and smiles in knowing how many people's lives he impacted and my best wishes to you for peace in the days ahead.
My mother worked hard for him and I know he was a great help to her while raising eight children on her own.
My prayers go out to his family. Kris, find strength and smiles in knowing how many people's lives he impacted and my best wishes to you for peace in the days ahead.
Message from Tom Canino
I have known Joe for fourty five years. I have never heard him speak a word of anger or regret. His smile and the sound of his voice will always be with me.
Message from Sally Johnson
Oh, Joe, you will be missed so much and by so many! Memories are endless of the times at Kellogg Corporation - the learning, his high expectations, the fun times and parties, and the opportunity of working with so many other nice and talented people. His disability was never a consideration or slowed him down. I consider him my mentor and have so much to thank him for. My sympathy to Kris, his daughters and other family members.
Message from Matt Becica
Joe was a good friend and was always kind to me. Never selfish, he taught me the construction consulting business and gave me advice on how to be successful with my own consulting business. I have great memories of travelling with Joe for client meetings and for attending conferences. Joe had a way of making business travel and work fun and interesting. I attended several of the Beavers conventions with Joe and especially enjoyed meeting his friends in the industry and hearing Joe's stories as well as the stories others told of Joe. I learned that Joe was a giant in the industry and that he touched the hearts and lives of so many people, including mine.
Message from Jim Weidinger
When I heard of Joe's passing, a flood of memories came back to me in an instant. I went to work for Joe at Kellogg Corporation in 1973, when there were ten employees total. Over the ten years I was with the firm, I learned so much about so many aspects of construction, and life in general, from Joe and others he had assembled, that I truly grew as a professional and as a person. When other Kellogg employees and I left to form our own competing firm, Joe had nothing but encouragement for our endevours. To be able to accomplish everything he did, with the physical limitations he had, was an amazing feat itself. He never let his physical problems interfere with traveling on business, using wheel chairs or crutches, or whatever else it took. He had the respect of everyone who interacted with him. One of my memories of Joe is that he was always late for the plane, and would have the redcaps with the motorized carts take him to the gate, with me also on board, calling ahead to "hold the plane for Mr. Kellogg," and they always would. As someone else said, I think of Joe and my time at Kellogg Corporation when I travel through the Eisenhower (or, as Joe called it "Straight Crick") Tunnel. I consider myself very fortunate to have known Joe and will miss him very much.
Message from Kevin Oshiro
When I remember Uncle Joe, countless examples of a great man ... truly one of a kind ... lifts my spirit and prevents me from grieving. Laughter fills my soul, and I find comfort and strength in being led by his wisdom once again. Oh, to live a fraction of the life he did: seeing the good in every situation, giving you his very best, and choosing to forget all the rest. I am blessed and honored to have shared share six years with Uncle Joe and his loving family ... moments I will always cherish and be eternally grateful for. much Love - "kevis"
Message from virginia
August 18, 2019 5:07 PM
Kevis,
I am finally in a place to read the posts on this page. Yours brought both tears and smiles.
Gini
I am finally in a place to read the posts on this page. Yours brought both tears and smiles.
Gini
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