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Andi Stanley
July 18, 2024
This is late, but I wanted to memorialize my friend and patient. I was Dr. Blackman's Medical Assistant and Dr. Ivanoff was one of my favorite patients. He talked me into getting a neurosurgeon for my cervical fusion when I approached him to do my surgery. He told me that a neurosurgeon was the way to go. I was also the one who helped him with his diabetic diet. I taught him food exchanges, and Tavi´s biscotti wasn´t on the list. I miss all of my patients from Dr. Blackman´s office. We had the BEST patients.
I am now a Hospice nurse. While I was sitting at Riverside Community Hospital many days with our other Ortho surgeon patient as he was about to pass from cancer, my Hospice dream was planted in my heart.
God Bless You, Dr. Ivanoff. I´ll see you when I get there, my friend.
Jan Ivanoff
March 29, 2014
Some memories of Dad:
- He played Chopin and Grieg concert-level in our living room to unwind from long days doing orthopedics.
- He took us kids on some long, windey road trips.
- He would come home with a good vocabulary quiz like "Do you know the difference between ludicrous and lugubrious?" (Helped us be way ahead academically.).
- We knew that when his colleagues took one weekday off for golf or such, he devoted one weekday to the crippled children's clinic, so we had a good example of community service.
- Dad financed higher education in his kids.
- About his earlier years, I heard he studied the dictionary daily, then German in high school while Hitler was doing his takeovers, so he was primed for the military intelligence service in the army, deciphering German codes and cyphers.. That's all we kids heard until we later learned that the Allies, through this work knew the German codes all along. Dad had kept that fact secret until the 1970's.
- I remember each Christmas wrapping gifts with Susie/Alex, that Dad got for all the hospital wings. He was generous.
- Dad said he ran long distance in college. Although I was never athletic I could jog distance in high school and college and beyond until kids came along, one of which is a running champion, coach and fitness trainer. Persistence pays off in many, many ways.
- Dad had, and continues in the beyond, to have love and benevolence for everyone he encountered.
Alexandra Ivanoff
March 28, 2014
In living memory of my father, who was named after Constantinople, the city where I now live.
April 12, 2013
John Ivanoff was a truly brilliant man, but mostly we remember him as a good man who gave more than he took during his lifetime. The most excited we ever saw John was when he came next door to Evelyn's Parents and showed us the Readers Digest article about the young U.S.Army Officers who broke German codes during WWII. "That was me, I did that" He followed the rules and did not talk about this service for 50 years. An honorable and honest man. Our Son's Father In Law, who was admired by us all. Rest Easy John. Cois and Evelyn Byrd
Kerren Brown
April 10, 2013
Dr. Ivanoff's caring, leadership, and expert orthopedic management will not be forgotten by the children, families, the many Occupational and Physcial Therapists who worked under his guidance, or orthotists who provided bracing. He dedicated many hours to serve the children in the California Chidren's Services/Medical Therapy Program throughout the Inland Empire. Thank you for sharing him with us.
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