HENDRICKSON, Roy F. 1903-1968
HENDRICKSON
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Date: 1/8/2010 at 22:09:18
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ROY HENDRICKSON
Memorial services for Roy Hendrickson, 64, former St. Ansgar resident who died Saturday at Boise, Idaho, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Schroeder and Houg Funeral Home burial in First Lutheran Cemetery.
He is survived by his widow Jean; two sons, Bartlett, Bruce both of Rockville, Maryland; three daughters: Mrs. Thomas Cedarlund of Boston, Massachusetts, Mrs. William Kobin of New York, N.Y., Mrs Wallace Clark of Lawrence Kansas; two brothers, Morris and Otto, both of St. Ansgar; a sister, Mrs. Mark Abbott of International Falls, Minn.
[ Waterloo Daily Courier, Tuesday, November 5, 1968 ]
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#2 of 2 items:Roy F. Hendrickson Memorial Rites Held November 6, 1968
Memorial services for Roy F. Hendrickson, 64, a native of St. Ansgar, who died November 2, 1968 while duck hunting in Burley, Idaho, were held November 5 at Schroeder and Houg Funeral Home here with the Reverend Don Comnick, pastor of First Lutheran Church officiating.
Mr. Hendrickson was executive secretary of the National Federation of Grain Cooperatives at the time of his death. He was born on a farm near St. Ansgar, and was educated at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota.
Long identified with the United States agricultural policy and programs in many capacities, he had recently been a member of the President’s National Advisory Commission of Food and Fiber, and was a co-leader of a special trade mission to East Central Europe last June, visiting Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia.
In 1925 he became a newspaperman, specializing in reporting governmental and agricultural activites in Minnesota, Iowa & New England. Two years later he was named Minnesota state capitol correspondent for the Associated Press in St. Paul. Later he was AP breau chief at Minneapolis until transferring to Washington, D.C. to cover New Deal farm programs in 1932.
The following year he joined the Agricultural Department where he was successively assistant in the office of the secretary director of information in the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and director of the department’s personnel.
In 1941 he was appointed administrator in the Surplus Marketing Administration and director of marketing. Later, when other duties were added, he became director of the Food Distribution Administration and then was named deputy war food administrator & president of the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation. Mr. Hendrickson helped to develop wartime food programs & procurement of food supplied to U.S. Allies under Lend-Lease financing.
In 1944 he was appointed duty general for supplies of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, the first agency of the United Nations.
Since 1946 he had been executive secretary of the National Federation of Grain Cooperatives, which had headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman had appointed Mr. Hendrickson as a member of the National Advisory Committee on Cooperatives. He was also vice president of Producers Export Co. and a director of the U.S. Feed Grains Council.
He was the author of a number of magazine articles and the book, Food Crisis. Mr. Hendrickson is survived by his wife, Jean of Arlington, Virginia, two sons, Bartlett R. and Bruce J. of Rockville, Virginia, three daughters, Mrs. T.A. Cederlund of Wayland, Massachusetts, Mrs. William H. Kobin of New York City, and Mrs. Wallace Clark Jr. of Lawrence, Kansas; also 13 grandchildren; two brothers, Morris and Otto, St. Ansgar, and a sister, Mrs. Mark (Esther) Abbott, International Falls, Minnesota.
Burial was in First Lutheran cemetery with Rev. Comnick in charge of committal services.
[St. Ansgar Enterprise -- St. Ansgar Museum obituary collection]
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