Eddy Co. NM - OBIT:  EDWIN B STUELAND

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The following excerpts were taken from Page 6A - The Carlsbad
(NM) Current Argus - January 20, 2000
STUELAND
Graveside services are scheduled for Edwin B. Stueland, 79, today
at Carlsbad Cemetery.  He died January 16 at his home.  Denton-
Funchess Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.  He was born
June 5, 1920, in Stony Run Township near Clarkfield, Minn., to
Hans J. and Minnie Mickelson Stueland.  He was baptized and
confirmed in the Lutheran faith.  In 1939, he graduated from
high school.  He inlisted in the Air Force serving in WWII as a
nose gunner of a B-24 Liberator in the South Pacific.  He married
Norma Nelson in 1945.  Following an honorable discharge from the
service, he attended Dunwoody Institute in Minneapolis, Minn.
He and his wife moved to Carlsbad in 1985 after living in 
Moline, Ill., and Dubuque, Iowa, designing and testing John Deere
tractors for 37 years.  While living in Dubuque, he was a member
of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church.  He was preceded in death by his 
wife in 1986; sister, Ruby Oxtra; and five brothers, Arthur, Clifford,
Harold, Reuben, and Richard.  Survivors include a brother, Earl of
Rural Granite, Minn.; and sister, Evelyn Kruger of Minnesota.