Milestone Announcements

55th Wedding Anniversary

Bob & Eileen Ickes

Eileen Schuler from Allentown, Penn., met Bob Ickes from Santa Cruz, Calif., in the late 1960s in Washington, D.C., where she was working as a nurse and he was in the U.S. Navy helping design nuclear attack submarine power plants. 

When Bob finished his naval service commitment, they got married on June 5, 1971, then took the summer off driving and sightseeing across the country to California and spent a couple of months backpacking in the Sierra Nevada mountains. That fall they both got jobs. Eileen was the office nurse in a doctor’s private practice, and Bob went to work in manufacturing engineering and management for Hewlett-Packard Company in Palo Alto, Calif. 

In 1979, they followed Bob’s job with HP to the Inland Empire, residing in Kootenai County outside of Post Falls, Idaho, while Bob worked at HP’s plant in Liberty Lake Wash. Eileen was a homemaker for years and then became a teacher’s aide, first in the local elementary schools, and later in the music department at NIC. Bob’s job with HP ended in 2001 and he retired. 

Family includes the late Scott Ickes, Steve and Jessica Ickes of Redwood City, Calif., grandchildren Tyler Ickes of Schenectady, N.Y., and Keona and Kyden Ickes growing up in Redwood City. 

Bob has always had an interest in boats, owning several (both power and sail) over the years. Presently much time is spent on their 1948 30’ Chris-Craft wooden cabin cruiser taking boat rides on Lake Coeur d’Alene.

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Submit your milestones to [email protected] or in person at the Coeur d’Alene Press, 215 Second St., Coeur d’Alene, ID 83814.

Listings include:

• Wedding anniversaries for couples married 25 years and every fifth year thereafter (2 photos accepted)

• Engagement announcements (1 photo accepted)

• Wedding announcements (1 photo accepted)

• Births (1 photo accepted)

• Milestone birthdays at age 70 and every fifth year thereafter or every year after age 90 (1 photo accepted)

• Generations (1 photo accepted)

• Higher education graduates (1 photo accepted)

• Military announcements (1 photo accepted)

Deadline is 3 p.m. Tuesdays.

    Bob and Eileen boat riding in 2026.