Obit: Bjorklund, Robert C. (1924 - 2004)

Transcribed by: Crystal Wendt

Surnames: Bjorkland, Johannes, Archbold

---Source: Daily Citizen (Beaver Dam, Wis.) 28 April 2004

---Bjorklund, Robert C. (7 Aug. 1924 - 23 April 2004)

Bjorklund, Robert C.

MADISON - Robert C. Bjorklund, age 79, died peacefully Friday, April 23, 2004, at Oak Park Nursing Home after a long illness. He was born on Aug. 7, 1924, in Merrill, Wis., to Charles and Alma (Johannes) Bjorklund. He graduated from Merrill High School in 1942.

A World War II veteran, Bob earned a Purple Heart and Bronze Star while marching across Germany as a rifleman with Patton's Third Army. After the war he remained in the National Guard, attaining the rank of captain.

While still in college, Bob began his writing career, first for The Merrill Daily Herald, then for the Wisconsin State Journal. He earned a degree in agricultural journalism from UW-Madison's College of Agriculture in 1949. Bob has been writing about agriculture and country life ever since. Bob was farm editor of the Wisconsin State Journal for almost 40 years. He attended and wrote about nearly every farm event and knew most of the farm families in southern Wisconsin, as well as their cows, hogs and other livestock. After his retirement in 1989, he continued writing for the Wisconsin State Journal, along with the Wisconsin State Farmer and Farmshine, a Pennsylvania farm paper, until his final retirement in 1997. An award winning writer, Bob was listed in Who's Who in the Midwest. He received the J.S. Russell Memorial Award from the Newspaper Farm Editors of America and the Honorary Recognition Award from the UW College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

He is survived by his wife, Louise Bjorklund of Madison; his sister, Jane Bjorklund of Merrill; his brother-in-law, William (Janice) Archbold of West Chester, Pa.; and their children and grandchildren.

Memorial services will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 1, 2004, at GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 116 W. Washington Ave., Madison, with the Rev. Martha A. Englert officiating. Friends are invited to visit following the service. Burial will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Monday, May 3, 2004, at Merrill Memorial Park in Merrill.

Memorials may be made to the UW-Madison Agricultural Journalism Scholarship Fund, care of the UW Foundation, 1848 University Ave., Madison, WI 53726; or to the Alzheimer's Association, South Central Wisconsin Chapter, 517 N. Segoe Road, No. 301, Madison, WI 53705. Cress Funeral Service 3610 Speedway Road (608) 238-3434 www.cressfuneralservice.com

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