{"id":1577,"date":"2015-07-24T08:37:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T13:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2015-07-24T08:37:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T13:37:37","slug":"l-richard-jurgensen-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/2015\/07\/l-richard-jurgensen-50\/","title":{"rendered":"*L. Richard Jurgensen &#8217;50"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><h2><a name=\"LRichardJurgensen50_D\"><\/a><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 5px; border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classhomepages\/files\/2014\/12\/50_LRichardJurgensen_D.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>*L. Richard Jurgensen, 90, of Galesburg, Ill., died Nov. 4, 2014. Even with the ravages of cancer, hearing loss, and probably Alzheimer&#8217;s, until his last week on earth, he loved to smile, talk, and eat sweet corn, cinnamon rolls, apples, and Snickers.<\/p>\n<p>He was born Sept. 11, 1924 and raised in Sioux City, Iowa; surveyor and postmaster for the Alaskan highway; Navy veteran in WWII; St Olaf and Luther Seminary graduate; ordained Lutheran pastor for both parishes in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Ohio, and campuses at Minot State University, Northern Illinois University, and the University of Chicago; N.D. State Senator; Dekalb County board member; emissary to China on apple development; beekeeper, goat rancher, photographer, philosopher, poet, and writer. He also enjoyed reading, symphonies, operas, his dogs, raising an orphaned baby moose, and collecting aphorisms.<\/p>\n<p>While his ashes will be scattered in trees near water, his earthly spirit and memory lives on in those who knew him. His heavenly spirit has entered into God&#8217;s Kingdom. He is sitting in a magnificent orchard surrounded by golden retrievers, goats, moose, and a grizzly, with eagles soaring overhead.<\/p>\n<p>He was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers, and wife <strong>Barbara Bitting Jurgensen &#8217;50<\/strong>. He is survived by his daughters, Janet Kjerne and Marie Volkers and husband Dave; son, Peter Jurgensen and wife Mariza; grandsons, <strong>Phillip Volkers &#8217;02<\/strong> and wife Katie Volkers, Tomas, and Lucas Jurgensen; and a brother in Texas.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*L. Richard Jurgensen, 90, of Galesburg, Ill., died Nov. 4, 2014. Even with the ravages of cancer, hearing loss, and probably Alzheimer&#8217;s, until his last week on earth, he loved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10","tag-obituary"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}