Earl Lewis Mickelson died Oct. 30, 1979, age 79, at William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso. He was born Sept. 12, 1900, near Ashby, MN, the son of Charley and Helen Torgimson Mickelson. He held BA, MA & PhD degrees in mathematics and physics from the Univ. of Minnesota.
Before coming to New Mexico State Teachers College in Silver City as professor of mathematics in 1929, he had taught at Hamline Univ. (St. Paul, MN), the Univ. of Minnesota and the Univ. of Wisconsin.
He continued teaching at NMSTC until 1933. He was commissioned 2nd Lt. in the US Army Reserve in 1923; served on active duty as a Captain from 1933-1935 as Civilian Conservation Corps commander and constructing quartermaster in the Gila National Forest; called to active duty in February 1941, as staff officer and battalion commander, serving as commanding officer of the 119th Anti-Aircraft Artillery gun battalion (Mobile) in the European Theater in WW II. Later he became regular Army in 1946 with the rank of Lt. Col. He served from 1949-1952 as plans and training officer for Headquarters Military District of Washington, DC; from 1952-1954 as Army Attache, Moscow, USSR.
During the years 1936-1940, he designed and built homes in Silver City (NM) and Tucson, Arizona, as a partner in Fox Construction Co. He was a past member of Silver City Rotary Club and at the time of his death belonged to American Legion Post 18 and Silver City Lodge No. 8, AF & AM, of which he was a past master.
Col. Mickelson is survived by his wife, Dorothy A. Mickelson of Silver City; two daughters, Janet M. Steinberger (Ypsilanti, Michigan) and Althea M. Dwire (Alamosa, CO); six grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, and eleven nieces and nephews...
Col. Mickelson's unit worked closely with the 455th AAA Bn. in WW2 in Europe. Mickelson's unit fired the 90mm AA guns, which hit enemy planes at high altitude. Col. Charles Sargent's 455th AAA fired the 40mm AA guns and quad .50-cal. machine guns, to hit enemy planes at medium to low altitude. Both men received the French Croix de Guerre medal in the same ceremony (see photo).
--obituary info from the "Silver City (N.M.) Daily Press"--
Before coming to New Mexico State Teachers College in Silver City as professor of mathematics in 1929, he had taught at Hamline Univ. (St. Paul, MN), the Univ. of Minnesota and the Univ. of Wisconsin.
He continued teaching at NMSTC until 1933. He was commissioned 2nd Lt. in the US Army Reserve in 1923; served on active duty as a Captain from 1933-1935 as Civilian Conservation Corps commander and constructing quartermaster in the Gila National Forest; called to active duty in February 1941, as staff officer and battalion commander, serving as commanding officer of the 119th Anti-Aircraft Artillery gun battalion (Mobile) in the European Theater in WW II. Later he became regular Army in 1946 with the rank of Lt. Col. He served from 1949-1952 as plans and training officer for Headquarters Military District of Washington, DC; from 1952-1954 as Army Attache, Moscow, USSR.
During the years 1936-1940, he designed and built homes in Silver City (NM) and Tucson, Arizona, as a partner in Fox Construction Co. He was a past member of Silver City Rotary Club and at the time of his death belonged to American Legion Post 18 and Silver City Lodge No. 8, AF & AM, of which he was a past master.
Col. Mickelson is survived by his wife, Dorothy A. Mickelson of Silver City; two daughters, Janet M. Steinberger (Ypsilanti, Michigan) and Althea M. Dwire (Alamosa, CO); six grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, and eleven nieces and nephews...
Col. Mickelson's unit worked closely with the 455th AAA Bn. in WW2 in Europe. Mickelson's unit fired the 90mm AA guns, which hit enemy planes at high altitude. Col. Charles Sargent's 455th AAA fired the 40mm AA guns and quad .50-cal. machine guns, to hit enemy planes at medium to low altitude. Both men received the French Croix de Guerre medal in the same ceremony (see photo).
--obituary info from the "Silver City (N.M.) Daily Press"--
Earl Lewis Mickelson died Oct. 30, 1979, age 79, at William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso. He was born Sept. 12, 1900, near Ashby, MN, the son of Charley and Helen Torgimson Mickelson. He held BA, MA & PhD degrees in mathematics and physics from the Univ. of Minnesota.
Before coming to New Mexico State Teachers College in Silver City as professor of mathematics in 1929, he had taught at Hamline Univ. (St. Paul, MN), the Univ. of Minnesota and the Univ. of Wisconsin.
He continued teaching at NMSTC until 1933. He was commissioned 2nd Lt. in the US Army Reserve in 1923; served on active duty as a Captain from 1933-1935 as Civilian Conservation Corps commander and constructing quartermaster in the Gila National Forest; called to active duty in February 1941, as staff officer and battalion commander, serving as commanding officer of the 119th Anti-Aircraft Artillery gun battalion (Mobile) in the European Theater in WW II. Later he became regular Army in 1946 with the rank of Lt. Col. He served from 1949-1952 as plans and training officer for Headquarters Military District of Washington, DC; from 1952-1954 as Army Attache, Moscow, USSR.
During the years 1936-1940, he designed and built homes in Silver City (NM) and Tucson, Arizona, as a partner in Fox Construction Co. He was a past member of Silver City Rotary Club and at the time of his death belonged to American Legion Post 18 and Silver City Lodge No. 8, AF & AM, of which he was a past master.
Col. Mickelson is survived by his wife, Dorothy A. Mickelson of Silver City; two daughters, Janet M. Steinberger (Ypsilanti, Michigan) and Althea M. Dwire (Alamosa, CO); six grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, and eleven nieces and nephews...
Col. Mickelson's unit worked closely with the 455th AAA Bn. in WW2 in Europe. Mickelson's unit fired the 90mm AA guns, which hit enemy planes at high altitude. Col. Charles Sargent's 455th AAA fired the 40mm AA guns and quad .50-cal. machine guns, to hit enemy planes at medium to low altitude. Both men received the French Croix de Guerre medal in the same ceremony (see photo).
--obituary info from the "Silver City (N.M.) Daily Press"--
Before coming to New Mexico State Teachers College in Silver City as professor of mathematics in 1929, he had taught at Hamline Univ. (St. Paul, MN), the Univ. of Minnesota and the Univ. of Wisconsin.
He continued teaching at NMSTC until 1933. He was commissioned 2nd Lt. in the US Army Reserve in 1923; served on active duty as a Captain from 1933-1935 as Civilian Conservation Corps commander and constructing quartermaster in the Gila National Forest; called to active duty in February 1941, as staff officer and battalion commander, serving as commanding officer of the 119th Anti-Aircraft Artillery gun battalion (Mobile) in the European Theater in WW II. Later he became regular Army in 1946 with the rank of Lt. Col. He served from 1949-1952 as plans and training officer for Headquarters Military District of Washington, DC; from 1952-1954 as Army Attache, Moscow, USSR.
During the years 1936-1940, he designed and built homes in Silver City (NM) and Tucson, Arizona, as a partner in Fox Construction Co. He was a past member of Silver City Rotary Club and at the time of his death belonged to American Legion Post 18 and Silver City Lodge No. 8, AF & AM, of which he was a past master.
Col. Mickelson is survived by his wife, Dorothy A. Mickelson of Silver City; two daughters, Janet M. Steinberger (Ypsilanti, Michigan) and Althea M. Dwire (Alamosa, CO); six grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, and eleven nieces and nephews...
Col. Mickelson's unit worked closely with the 455th AAA Bn. in WW2 in Europe. Mickelson's unit fired the 90mm AA guns, which hit enemy planes at high altitude. Col. Charles Sargent's 455th AAA fired the 40mm AA guns and quad .50-cal. machine guns, to hit enemy planes at medium to low altitude. Both men received the French Croix de Guerre medal in the same ceremony (see photo).
--obituary info from the "Silver City (N.M.) Daily Press"--
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