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Harry Eisen, Egg Industry Producer
Facts and Events
Obituary
- From "The DDBC News Magazine", September/October 2012:
- Harry Eisen, 95
- Harry Eisen, a Polish-born Holocost survivor who founded Norco Ranch Inc. in western Riverside County in the 1950's and built it into one of the state's leading egg producers, processors and distributors, had died. He was 95.
- Eisen died July 19 of complications of lung disease at his home in Beverly Hills, said his daughter, Frances Miller.
- When Eisen and his Polish-born wife Hilda, immigrated to Los Angeles in 1948, they had no money and spoke no English.
- Eisen managed a sausage factory and three outlets in Warsaw before World War II, but with his lack of English he could only get a job cleaning out meat barrels in a hot-dog factory in Vernon.
- But after saving money to buy his first 100 chickens, he launched a backyard operation in Arcadia and peddled the eggs in his neighborhood.
- The Eisens moved their growing operation to Norco in the 1950's.
- In 2000, when Eisen sold Norco Ranch to Missouri-based Moark, it had a staff of about 450 people and a list of major customers that included the Ralphs division of Kroger, the Vons division of Safeway, Albertsons, Costco, Trader Joe's and Jack-in-the-Box.
- Eisen was born May 15, 1917 in Izbica Kujawska, a small village in Poland. He left home at 13 and got a job in a Warsaw sausage factory.
- In addition to his daughter Frances, Eisen is survived by his wife of 67 years, his other daughters, Ruth Eisen and Mary Cramer; his son Howard, eight grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.
- Services have been held.
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