HALVORSON, Stanton Leo --- 1922-1982

STANTON, HALVORSON, FERGIN, CAMP, BROADDUS

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Date: 2/14/2011 at 19:02:11

Stanton Leo Halvorson

Funeral services for Stanton Halvorson were held Saturday, July 24 at 1:30 p.m. at the Schutte Funeral Home in Postville. Rev. Clarence Johnson officiated. Burial was in God's Acres Cemetery in Clermont.

Stanton Leo Halvorson, son of John Carl and LaNora (Stanton) Halvorson, was born July 23, 1922 in Clermont, Iowa. He died July 21, 1982 at the Veterans Administration Medical Center at Iowa City, Iowa.

He was a graduate of the Clermont High School and in 1947 graduated from the Weaver School of Real Estate in Kansas City, Kan. On Oct. 6, 1951 he was married to Eunice R. Fergin at Selfridge Field Air Force Base in Michigan. To this union five children were born.

In April of 1941, prior to WW II, Stanton enlisted in the U.S. Navy. He was stationed at Iceland where he served aboard the battleship, USS Idaho. During WW II he served in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater. After completing his military service in 1946, he was self-employed as a real estate broker in Clermont, Iowa.

In 1951 he joined the Air Force Reserve but because of the outbreak of the Korean Conflict, was called to active duty, with special assignments with the ROTC at Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Selfridge Field, Mich., Greenland and Norway. For four years they were stationed in Norway where he was with NATO. He had served a total of 21 years in the active U.S. Armed Forces, retiring in 1967.

He is preceded in death by his parents, and a brother, Allan.

Surviving are his wife, Eunice, 2 sons, John of Cedar Rapids and Peter of Denton, Texas, 3 daughters, Sheryl of Seattle, Wash., Sue Ellen of Richardson, Texas, and Nora Jo of Wichita, Kan., 2 grandchildren, a brother, John of Clermont, and 2 sisters, Mrs. John (Maryon) Camp and Mrs. Francis (Helen) Broaddus, both of El Paso, Texas.

He was a lifetime member of the Disabled Veterans and a member of the VW, the Masonic Lodge in Clermont, the American Legion in El Paso, Texas, a former member of the Lions Club in West Union and served on the board of the Good Samaritan Center in West Union.

Postville, Iowa newspaper of the time clipping, from Dorothy Schave's obituary collection.