Eldon Earl Brossard

Eldon (Al) Earl Brossard died peacefully at the age of 89 in his home in Temecula, California on May 5, 2022. The cause was congestive heart failure.

Eldon was born in Fox Lake, Wisconsin on December 29, 1932 the youngest of 5 children of Clarence Brossard, a postman, and Elsie (Waterpool) Brossard, a seamstress and homemaker. His older siblings, in order, were Orrin, Lloyd, Eldred, and Ila (Crist). Eldon graduated from Lyons Township High School in La Grange, Illinois in 1950 and entered the US Army during the Korean War where he was promoted to Sergeant in the motor pool at Fort Knox, Kentucky. After being discharged from the Army, Eldon was proprietor of Brossard's City Service gas station. Eldon married Olive Mae Ammeson in 1955 and their son David Neil Brossard was born in 1957 in Joliet, Illinois. Mae Brossard died in 1959. Eldon began his long career in Snap-on Tools in 1956 as a mechanics' tools dealer and the family moved to the San Fernando Valley in California in 1961. There Eldon married Annice Carolyn (Poore) Brossard in 1964—a marriage that lasted over 50 years. Eldon rose in Snap-on Tools to Field Manager and then Branch Manager in Phoenix, Arizona. He was finally transferred to San Rafael, California to become Western Regional Sales Manager. Eldon retired from Snap-on in 1989 after 33 years.

Eldon loved automobiles and still had the receipt for his first car – a brand new 1950 red-and-white two-tone Ford for which he paid $7000. He later purchased a 1953 MG TD and a 1956 "Peacock Blue" Ford Thunderbird, which was appropriate because he and Annice lived for many years on Peacock Lane in the "Peacock Gap" neighborhood of San Rafael.

Eldon and Annice moved from San Rafael to Murrieta, California in 1994 to be closer to Eldon's siblings who have all since passed away as did Annice (in 2014). In addition to David (who lives in Oakland, California), he is survived by Annice's daughter Caryn Spencer of Meridian Idaho, Caryn's son Jonathan, and Jonathan's children Kaya, Dryden, and Reagan.

Eldon's cremated remains will join his beloved Annice's in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California following a private ceremony.

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