Elliot Ervin "Jack Jr" Engstrom was born on May 18, 1920, in Burlington, Iowa, the only child of Rufus Leonard "Jack" Engstrom and Lillian Laura (Hartley) Engstrom.
The family moved from Iowa to Los Angeles in the early 1920s, and Jack attended school in Aguanga.
After enlisting at age 22, Jack served as a Sargent in the U.S. Army's 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment during World War II. After the war, he returned to California, finished his education and then worked as a director of quality assurance for the McCulloch Corporation, which made chainsaws. His parents split up in the mid-1940s, but both remained in California. His father remarried; his mother did not.
Jack married Flora Jean Bovie in Los Angeles about 1947 and adopted her four-year-old daughter, Lianne Jeanne Moon, who took the name Jena Engstrom.
His wife, Jean, and daughter, Jena, both had many acting credits to their names, mostly during the 1950s and 60s. Jean is known for the films Voodoo Island (1957), The Space Children (1958), and The Restless Ones (1965) as well as for her many television appearances. Jena is known for Have Gun Will Travel (1957h, Wagon Train (1957), and Rawhide (1959). Jena continued to work into the 1970s and beyond.
Jack lost Jean to breast cancer in 1997. He had a heart attack in May of 2014 and died a few weeks later on the 4th of July in an assisted living facility in San Marcos, California. He was 94.
The family moved from Iowa to Los Angeles in the early 1920s, and Jack attended school in Aguanga.
After enlisting at age 22, Jack served as a Sargent in the U.S. Army's 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment during World War II. After the war, he returned to California, finished his education and then worked as a director of quality assurance for the McCulloch Corporation, which made chainsaws. His parents split up in the mid-1940s, but both remained in California. His father remarried; his mother did not.
Jack married Flora Jean Bovie in Los Angeles about 1947 and adopted her four-year-old daughter, Lianne Jeanne Moon, who took the name Jena Engstrom.
His wife, Jean, and daughter, Jena, both had many acting credits to their names, mostly during the 1950s and 60s. Jean is known for the films Voodoo Island (1957), The Space Children (1958), and The Restless Ones (1965) as well as for her many television appearances. Jena is known for Have Gun Will Travel (1957h, Wagon Train (1957), and Rawhide (1959). Jena continued to work into the 1970s and beyond.
Jack lost Jean to breast cancer in 1997. He had a heart attack in May of 2014 and died a few weeks later on the 4th of July in an assisted living facility in San Marcos, California. He was 94.
Elliot Ervin "Jack Jr" Engstrom was born on May 18, 1920, in Burlington, Iowa, the only child of Rufus Leonard "Jack" Engstrom and Lillian Laura (Hartley) Engstrom.
The family moved from Iowa to Los Angeles in the early 1920s, and Jack attended school in Aguanga.
After enlisting at age 22, Jack served as a Sargent in the U.S. Army's 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment during World War II. After the war, he returned to California, finished his education and then worked as a director of quality assurance for the McCulloch Corporation, which made chainsaws. His parents split up in the mid-1940s, but both remained in California. His father remarried; his mother did not.
Jack married Flora Jean Bovie in Los Angeles about 1947 and adopted her four-year-old daughter, Lianne Jeanne Moon, who took the name Jena Engstrom.
His wife, Jean, and daughter, Jena, both had many acting credits to their names, mostly during the 1950s and 60s. Jean is known for the films Voodoo Island (1957), The Space Children (1958), and The Restless Ones (1965) as well as for her many television appearances. Jena is known for Have Gun Will Travel (1957h, Wagon Train (1957), and Rawhide (1959). Jena continued to work into the 1970s and beyond.
Jack lost Jean to breast cancer in 1997. He had a heart attack in May of 2014 and died a few weeks later on the 4th of July in an assisted living facility in San Marcos, California. He was 94.
The family moved from Iowa to Los Angeles in the early 1920s, and Jack attended school in Aguanga.
After enlisting at age 22, Jack served as a Sargent in the U.S. Army's 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment during World War II. After the war, he returned to California, finished his education and then worked as a director of quality assurance for the McCulloch Corporation, which made chainsaws. His parents split up in the mid-1940s, but both remained in California. His father remarried; his mother did not.
Jack married Flora Jean Bovie in Los Angeles about 1947 and adopted her four-year-old daughter, Lianne Jeanne Moon, who took the name Jena Engstrom.
His wife, Jean, and daughter, Jena, both had many acting credits to their names, mostly during the 1950s and 60s. Jean is known for the films Voodoo Island (1957), The Space Children (1958), and The Restless Ones (1965) as well as for her many television appearances. Jena is known for Have Gun Will Travel (1957h, Wagon Train (1957), and Rawhide (1959). Jena continued to work into the 1970s and beyond.
Jack lost Jean to breast cancer in 1997. He had a heart attack in May of 2014 and died a few weeks later on the 4th of July in an assisted living facility in San Marcos, California. He was 94.
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