Sulo Kalervo Jappinen

Our beloved father, brother, grandfather, uncle, great-grandfather, and friend Sulo Kalervo Jappinen, died peacefully at Sunshine Terrace December 26th, 2003. He was born to Aapeli and Wilhelmina
Jappinen on January 7, 1912, in Oshkosh Wisconsin. Sulo attended Ocean View School in Virginia, and graduated from Morris High School, the Bronx, in 1930, spent time in Finland, and in Russia, and returned to New York in 1932. He joined the U.S. Army as one of the first volunteers after Pearl Harbor; he served first as aerial cartographer, and later in the Army Corps of Engineers? first Radar unit in India and Burma until war?s end. He married Rae Lipton in 1940; they had one child, Ilona Jappinen. After the war he was trained as a calligrapher and commercial artist, eventually becoming a virtuoso in his profession and co-owner of a successful business. He studied fine art at the Brooklyn Museum
School and the NY Art Students? League, and his art was displayed at many exhibitions. Sulo and Rae divorced in 1958, and Sulo lived in Florida until 1995,
when he moved to Logan. In Florida he became a devotee of Scrabble. Sulo was a self-taught scholar who loved all that advances, truth, beauty and democracy and opposes oppression and injustice. He read widely and deeply in literature, philosophy and many other fields, and loved to quote at length, verbatim, from passages that were especially meaningful to him. He was preceded in death by his parents, sister Helen, niece Jean, and former wife Rae. He is survived by his daughter Ilona Robert, brother Veikko Marianne, niece Helen John, nephews Mark Chris, David and Ed Fran, Tony and David Brailow, grandson Peter Sarah, granddaughter Teresa Bishi, and great-grandchildren, Emily, Priya and Patrick. The family wishes to thank the staff at Sunshine Terrace and the Adult Day center for exemplary care of Sulo in his final years. In lieu of flowers, friends may wish to donate to Hospice of Cache Valley, 550 East 1400 North Ste. G., Logan. A memorial service will be held Saturday, January 31, 2004 at 3 p.m. under direction of Nelson Funeral Home, 162 East 400 North, Logan. Condolences to the family may be extended online at www.nelsonfuneralhome.com .