Feodor "Fred" Kreiden

Feodor (Fred) Kreiden Jr. (81) of Sagle, ID, passed away on Wednesday, September 2, 2015, at his home while recuperating from cancer surgery. Fred was born on February 6, 1934 in Sumy, Ukraine. His father was Feodor Kreiden Sr. from Latvia and his mother was Kleopatra Molotenko from the Ukraine. Fred was the youngest of six children. During World War II, his parents and the three youngest children fled from the Ukraine to Poland and on to Austria. In Austria Fred attended elementary school and participated in the Boy Scouts. From Austria, the family immigrated to the Americas. They arrived at Ellis Island in New York in July of 1950. They stayed in New York a year and a half. Fred attended junior high school while living there. The family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where Fred went to trade school and learned pattern making (pattern forms for steel foundries). He served two years in the Army, where he became an expert rifleman and sharpshooter. After his military service he reunited with his family in San Francisco, California. In San Francisco he continued to work as a pattern maker for several years before switching to carpentry. He said he was tired of working inside a warehouse building and wanted to work outdoors and be more physical. Fred loved the outdoors. He had pleasant memories of the lakes, rivers and mountains he saw in the Ukraine and Austria. In 1982, he and his wife and sister Lucy, moved to Sagle, Idaho, because its natural beauty resembled the countryside in his childhood memories. Here in Idaho, Fred would get together with his brothers and sister for part of every summer. Each summer, Fred and his brother Steve would plant a bigger and better garden than the previous year. Fred would proudly call other family members and say “You have to come up here and see this garden!” He and his brother would figure out ingenious ways on how to keep deer and other critters from eating up the garden, using lights, motion sensors, rattles, recordings, noise makers. Fred liked tinkering and coming up with novel ways of making things work. He liked to joke that with a hammer and duct tape, he could do anything. Sometimes his experiments ended up being contraptions that only he knew how they worked. That was one of his quirky ways of always having something to do. To his last days he was giving suggestions on how to make or do something better. Fred was preceded in death by his first wife Marta Aida de Kreiden; his third wife Bertha Kreiden; his siblings, Vechislaw Kreiden, Clara Kreiden, Ludmilla (Lucy) Kreiden, Nicklas Kreiden; his nephew Andreas Kreiden. Fred is survived by his four sons, Ted Kreiden, Victor Kreiden, John Kreiden, Peter and Bettina Kreiden, and their son Finn Kreiden; his brother Weswolod (Steve) and Hannalore Kreiden and their daughter Christina Kreiden; and Fred’s second wife Sigfrid Anna Drew. Private family services will be held at a future date. There is no need for flowers, good thoughts will do. “Let us not dwell on the past, or be anxious about the future, enjoy the moment of life you are sharing with others right now.”