John Arthur Eklund

  Research Notes:

1. findagrave post

LTJG US NAVY, WORLD WAR II

- Lieutenant (junior grade) (LTJG) is a junior commissioned officer rank in the United States Navy ... served in World War II as a member of the U.S. Naval Reserve

2. Ancestry has a number of records under "Navy Muster Rolls"

3. There are a number of records, re; US Public Records database for "John Eklund" in Portland OR


4. Obit. 2000

Survivors - wife, Marion, at home; one daughter, Suzanne Bussey of Vancouver; two sons, Gary of Sequim and Bruce of Everett; two brothers, Bud Eklund of St. Paul, Minn., and Chuck Fox of Huntington Beach, Calif.; one sister, Dorothy Peterson of St. Paul; and seven grandchildren. ⁷³⁹³

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Military Service, 1941-1945, United States. ^7456,7458 Findagrave post has the following inscription: LTJG US NAVY, WORLD WAR II.

John married Marion Thias Brown.⁷⁴⁵⁶ (Marion Thias Brown was born on 27 Aug 1919 in Hennepin Co, Minnesota, United States,⁷⁴⁵⁹ died on 24 Jan 2014 in Vancouver, Clark Co, Washington, United States ⁷⁴⁶⁰ and was buried in Willamete National Cemetery, Portland, Oregon, United States ⁷⁴⁶¹.)