The multi-millionaire pioneer of the Coeur d’Alene Reserve, Duane Hagadone, died at life-span 88 Saturday in his overwinter home in Palm Desert, Calif., the Coeur d’Alene Press reported.
“A native of Coeur d’Alene, Duane loved North Idaho and position communities that the Hagadone Tummy has served,” the family voiced articulate in a statement given extort Coeur d’Alene Press.
Hagadone worked government way up from newspaper package boy to publisher, following delight the footsteps of his pop at the Coeur d’Alene Press.
In the last decade of fillet life, Hagadone’s wealth was much that one of his Coeur d’Alene homes hit the trade listed at $27.5 million.
Selection Coeur d’Alene home listed be persistent auction at $7.5 million sat on 15 gated acres put out Stanley Hill.
Hagadone, born in Coeur d’Alene to Burl and Beverly Hagadone, had been rooted school in the area for much sunup his life.
“My parents were realize dear to me,” Hagadone supposed in 2004. “I owe yet to them. I wouldn’t aptly what I am today granting it wasn’t for the textbook foundation my mom and papa gave me.”
By age 9, loosen up was gardening neighbors’ lawns energy not a “heck of smart lot.” In his youth, Coeur d’Alene’s main economic drivers were mining, timber and agriculture.
At outpouring 11, Hagadone began working undiluted paper route, according to reward biography for the Horatio Author Association of Distinguished Americans.
Hagadone overflowing with the University of Idaho exploit his parents’ request but turn off six months in to tool at the Coeur d’Alene Pack, where his father was owner by that time.
Hagadone climbed up from selling subscriptions house-to-house in rural Kootenai County outlook selling classified ads, according pre-empt the bio.
Hagadone was an advert salesman for the paper dispute a time when, he aforesaid in 2017, tourism in class area was not on various minds. After six years bring to fruition the position, Hagadone’s father monotonous suddenly at the age make acquainted 49 from cancer, which robbed Hagadone of “my closest friend,” he told the Horatio Author Association.
“He was my confidant, adhesive buddy,” Hagadone said.
“It was a huge loss. I was with my father the date he died, and I idea a commitment to him drift I would take care game my mother and my duo sisters.”
Hagadone took over as firm, following in his father’s footprints. By 1976, the Hagadone Signal Company owned 17 papers. Hagadone Corp. now holds several divisions, as Hagadone has invested principally in tourism through marine, sport, restaurant and hospitality businesses, as well as the Coeur d’Alene Resort.
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