This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Flueger, Brown, Nugent, Hall, Leeson, Marty, Nevitt, Anderson, Avery, Fahnlander, Kosidowski, Atkinson, Jackson, Gisslen, Notebaart Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3FC.2ACI/3724 Message Board Post: John Barney Flueger, 90 Friday, September 03, 2004 John Barney Flueger, 90, of Red Wing, Minn., died Thursday, Aug. 26, at Hi-Park Care Center in Red Wing. He was born Aug. 11, 1914, in Bay City, the son of Barney John and Gertrude (Brown) Flueger. He attended school in the town of Trenton, Pierce County, and then attended the University of Minnesota, School of Agriculture, graduating in 1938. He was raised and worked on the family homestead farm in the town of Trenton, and the family later moved to Goodhue County, Minn. On Dec. 24, 1940, he married Elaine Nugent, and they lived in various places in Minnesota but returned to Red Wing. During World War II, on May 26, 1944, he entered the U.S. Marine Corps, serving as a combat engineer in the South Pacific. He was honorably discharged Dec. 2, 1945. In 1949, he started Flueger Construction Company and additionally worked as a grading and soil conservation contractor. He also had a farm in Flower Valley where he raised sheep and crops. After his wife, Elaine, died Jan. 30, 1960, he married Sila Hall, April 28, 1961. He was active on the farm and with the company until his death. He was a member of the Church of St. Joseph in Red Wing, the Burnson-Lilyblad Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post No. 1218, the Land Improvement Contractors Association, where he was Contractor of the Year, the South East Minnesota Lamb & Wool Producers and the American Sheep Association. He also received the 1994 Distinguished Service Award from the Goodhue County Soil and Water District and the Soil Conservation Award from Pierce County. Among his enjoyments were gardening, farming, traveling, tree planting, beekeeping and bowling. He was a supporter of the Environmental Learning Center. Survivors are his wife, Sila; eight children, Heidi (Clark) Leeson of Hudson, Sharon Marty, Barney (Mary) Flueger, Susan (Tim) Nevitt, K.C. (Kimberly) Flueger, Joann (David) Anderson and Edward Flueger, all of Red Wing, and Nora (Todd Avery) Flueger of Eagan, Minn. Also surviving are 21 grandchildren, Lisa, Scott (Deborah) and Dale Marty, and Pamela Fahnlander; Kirk (Terri) and Michael (Sharon) Leeson; Valerie, Heather, Alicia and Ryan (fiancee Cassandra Kosidowski) Flueger; Jamie and John “Jack” Nevitt; Patrick, Alison and Kevin Flueger; Katee, Amy and Jessica Anderson; Sierra, Marley and John “Johnny” Flueger; six great-grandchildren: Carley, Nadine, Riley and Sylvia Marty, Mathilda and Piper Leeson; a brother, Dale Flueger of Red Wing; and two sisters, Virginia Atkinson of California and Barbara (Carl) Jackson of Woodbury, Minn. Preceding him in death, besides his first wife, Elaine, were a sister, Elizabeth Gisslen, and a son-in-law, Dick Marty. The funeral was 10 a. m. Tuesday, Aug. 31, at Church of St. Joseph with Father James Notebaart presiding. Burial was in Calvary Cemetery, where pallbearers were eight grandsons: Scott and Dale Marty, Michael and Kirk Leeson, Ryan, Patrick, Kevin and John Flueger. The Mahn Family Funeral Home, Bodelson-Mahn Chapel in Red Wing was in charge of arrangements. Memorials are preferred to the Environmental Learning Center or the Hi-Park Chapel Fund. © 2004 Hudson Star-Observer - Reposted by permission http://www.hudsonstarobserver.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=11580&SectionID=3&SubSectionID=54&S=1