Steve Van Strum

Saying many prayers for you today, that you are truly walking with The Lord and your parents in Heaven. S/ Lea (and Ana Blue) Gammon

Steve, pray that you are walking in the light of Jesus. Passing our love to you and to your family.

Thank you, Steve. You made a difference.

Steve, praying for your peace and warmth in Heaven

I had the good fortune to count Steve as one of my regulars when I bartended at Jo Federigo’s in the 1990s. He would drop in periodically to check on my progress in graduate school, and we’d talk books and movies. He was kind, generous, and very, very funny.

I’m so very sorry to say that I did not stay in contact with Steve, but he has lived large in my thoughts, and I know I was lucky to know him.

I meet Steve when I video interviewed him about his work to stop herbicides. At that point, I’d known about him and his work for years. Later he contacted me and asked me to keep his collections of very early 1970-1980s videos about herbicide use in Western Oregon and more. He contacted me a couple of years ago, got the videos and transferred them to digital. He then brought the originals and copies back to me for safekeeping. The videos were used in the new documentary “The People vs Agent...

Steve was a good man and a good friend. We worked together on herbicides and also on poetry. He helped make the world
a better place.

without knowing each other we traveled some similar life tracks....I was in Berkeley when he was at Cody's....and a few years later I was a Hoedad planting trees being introduced to Steve by our mutual friend Hal Hartzell...
peace brother I will treasure the time we spent together....RickHerson