Ron was born in Peck, Michigan on November 21, 1942, where he also spent his early childhood years and then moved to Brown City, Michigan where he attended school. In 1960, he moved to Croswell, Michigan with his parents in his senior year of high school. He grated from Croswell-Lexington High School in 1961. In August of 1965, he married Josephine Ann Izworski and moved to Lexington, Michigan until May of 1970. In May of 1970 they then moved to Croswell, Michigan next to his parents where they purchased their first home and raised their family. In August of 2006, he and his wife moved to Oilton, Oklahoma and lived there until his death on September 3, 2023.

Ron worked on a farm as a teenager in Applegate while in high school. After graduating high school in 1961, he worked repairing farm tractors at a local farming business in Croswell along with farming the business owner's personal property. In 1963, he worked in the auto industry at multiple factories, making trim moldings and doing roll mill set up until the age of 62. He worked a total of 42 years in the factories. He retired in August 2005, three months before his 63rd birthday.

Ron grew up in the Baptist Church and after moving to Croswell attended the Croswell Community Baptist Church. He and his wife were married at the Pilgrim Holiness Church in Croswell in 1965, which later changed it's name to the Croswell Wesleyan Church. There they faithfully attended and worked while starting and raising their family. Ron was involved in many things including teaching Sunday School for the boys 6-8 yrs old for 5 years, singing in the church choir, doing solos, taught the children on Wednesday evenings with CYC (Christian Youth Crusaders), which was like boy and girl scouts where you earned badges for accomplishing Bible and home related things to do. He played on the men's church baseball team, helped with the Men's Breakfast once a month and also did janitorial work at the church for about 4 years. He also helped shovel snow in the winters prior to any church service or event. He loved kids and he and his wife chaperoned teens occasionally on youth outings. He also coached the Croswell Pee Wee and Little League teams. He believed in fairness, integrity, being diligent and encouraged the kids to believe in themselves and to be a good sport. He loved reading his Bible and made it a priority every day.

Ron started his education at Brown City Public Schools in 1948 where he completed kindergarten through his junior year. He moved to Croswell in 1960 enrolling into Croswell-Lexington High School where he entered the senior school year and graduated in 1961.

As a young boy, Ron would often go for a walk in the woods on his parents' farm. He loved wearing baseball caps. Often, he would bring a capful of blackberries home that he picked so his mom would him a homemade pie.

In school, Ron was interested in many sports as a young boy. He was involved in FFA where he partook and excelled at archery and raising animals. He was also in wrestling. He had many different awards. He raised pigs at home along with having chickens and a garden.

He would also make homemade toys out of wooden spools and rubber bands.

He loved wrestling in his childhood and would wrestle with his dad and brothers at home. They'd try to outdo one another by whoever had the best "hold". His mother had to yell at her kids and her husband a few times for the wrestling getting a little out of hand.

As a teen, he would always be polishing and cleaning his vehicles. He loved cars and old tractors. He also loved playing pool.

In his married years, he played softball, horseshoes, archery, pool and bowling. He watched wrestling and baseball on tv.

He and his family also went canoeing occasionally in Michigan and on bicycle outings. Ron and his wife and 2 children once went on a 20-mile round trip bike ride from Croswell to Peck and back. They also biked around Mackinaw Island.

He loved lighthouses, walking on the harbor and playing card and board games. HIs favorite card game was Euchre. He was good at it all, especially horseshoes, Euchre and checkers. He was unbeatable (almost always).

He had a great sense of humor and a great laugh. He loved music and he would always be singing around the house. It could have been the latest country song he heard on the radio or a song from the hymnal at church or

a Christian artist. If Ron couldn't be found around the house, you only had to wait. Soon you would see an eaten corn cob flying up in the air above the corn stalks or some other garden-grown vegetable thrown up on the lawn after being eaten. Ron was happy being home in his garden.

He also loved the outdoors and nature in it's purest forms. He enjoyed going for walks, hiking through the woods and could name trees, flowers and plants to his children as well as identifying animal tracks. He grew a huge garden and took great care and pride in it. Everything he did was immaculate. He had the "Midas Touch". He was always a happy man and you never heard him complain.