David Robert Houdeshell

1963 - 2023

David Robert Houdeshell was laid to rest on October 28th, 2023 after a short diagnosis of End Stage Liver Disease, he was 60 years of age. David was born in Redding, CA on April 19th, 1963. He resided in Rancho Murieta for 22 years. Relocating here from the Central Coast and Bay Area in 2001. Otherwise, known as "Big D", "Big Dave", "Cowboy", but his favorite nickname was "Coach". It made the big guy teary-eyed when he ran into his coached student-athletes and they addressed him as such. He'd talk about it for days. Surviving members of his family are his spouse, Deborah, twin children, Austen and Audrey, his father Robert Houdeshell, his sister, Debra Houdeshell Ryan, and brother, Dan Houdeshell. David was a Bartender for a number of years and made a "mean cocktail". He worked 3 jobs when his twins were born, in order for his wife to stay home, while starting up two new businesses with his parents. Top Gun Enzyme & Microbial and Producers Specialties, Inc. are manufacturing companies that produced products for animal nutrition. These companies were extremely lucrative. David never graduated from high school. He had the equivalent to a 9th grade education. The lure of making money was the catalyst to dropping out of high school. He would tell you he was the richest kid in his Leduc, province of Alberta Canada. Hard working, working nights doing janitorial work at that time. He moved to Sacramento to be near family and worked for Campbell Soup Company, and Sunset Lawn Funeral Home selling pre-need funeral arrangements. Where he met his wife, Deborah, in 1989. She was moving to Aptos and he soon joined her there. They were married in 1993. They recently celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary October 10th. When living in Aptos, he worked for Santa Cruz Memorial Park and Funeral Home, Aptos Club, Krazy's Restaurant & Bar, Moe's Alley, Britannia Arms and Woodworks Furniture & Leather. He worked the 1991 Poppy Hills AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and met Joe Pesci. Who insisted on wearing his golf shoes in a "no shoe zone" and making his own cocktail. They hit it off immediately. Twins, Austen and Audrey, were prematurely born in 1997. In 2001, relocating to Sacramento, purchasing a home in Rancho Murieta, to be closer to Aunt Deb and Uncle Mat Ryan, with raising twins, he worked for Ashley Furniture, Beck's Furniture and continued his animal Nutrition business. Working for himself provided him with the flexibility and opportunity to Coach the PG Eagles pilot program for youths. He found his nitch and loved it! A HUGE Chicago Bear fan, it was either going to be "a good week or a bad week" if the Bears won or lost. If you follow "Da Bears" most weeks were not good weeks. But he was a true fan. David care-gave his mother who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer for 17 months until her demise in 2019 which devastated him and this he never bounced back from. She waited to pass until he arrived at her bedside. Just prior to David's death, he was caregiving his father and Brother in Laws father. David will be remembered as a "Larger than Life" personality, the "Life of the Party", always a good story or joke to tell and knew just about everything about your favorite sports team and his. He also loved his military movies and could name any plane in the sky and give you the details. He loved the Rancho Murieta Airport and the Rancho Murieta Equestrian Center, he could be seen frequenting them often. Or by the Consumnes River, hoping to see the salmon in the fish ladder jump. He was loved by so many and is missed greatly by his family and friends. In lieu of flowers please consider a small donation to: CCFAA -Alcoholics Anonymous or Loaves and Fishes/The Mustard Seed School.