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Carl Lewis Heyerdahl

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Carl Lewis Heyerdahl

Birth
Orfordville, Rock County, Wisconsin, USA
Death
30 Dec 1966 (aged 68)
Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona, USA
Burial
West Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
Plot
Apostle St. Mark, Lot 211, Grave B
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Prof. Carl Lewis Heyerdahl, 68, of West Lafayette, died Friday [Dec. 30, 1966] in Parkview Baptist Hospital, Yuma, AZ. He had been a patient there since Dec. 20 when he suffered a heart attack while en route to the Rose Bowl game at Pasadena, CA.

Prof. Heyerdahl retired last May after 38 years as a professor in the Political Science Department at Purdue University. He served with the U.S. Army during World War I, was a professor emeritus of Purdue, a member of Central Presbyterian Church, Tau Kappa Epsilon, and Indiana Social Science Academy.

He obtain his bachelor of science degree at Beloit (WI) College in 1923, and a master of science degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1928. He also did graduate work at the University of Minnesota.

Surviving with his widow, the former Vivian Ethel Hipple, are a daughter, Emalie Isobel [Mrs. Lowell Lee] Stewart of Costa Mesa, AZ; a brother, Myron Heyerdahl of Temple Bar, AZ; and two sisters, Mrs. Talma Fossum of Beloit, WI, and Mrs. Gladys Furry of Ventura, CA.
--Lafayette Journal & Courier - Tue 1/3/1967, page 6
Prof. Carl Lewis Heyerdahl, 68, of West Lafayette, died Friday [Dec. 30, 1966] in Parkview Baptist Hospital, Yuma, AZ. He had been a patient there since Dec. 20 when he suffered a heart attack while en route to the Rose Bowl game at Pasadena, CA.

Prof. Heyerdahl retired last May after 38 years as a professor in the Political Science Department at Purdue University. He served with the U.S. Army during World War I, was a professor emeritus of Purdue, a member of Central Presbyterian Church, Tau Kappa Epsilon, and Indiana Social Science Academy.

He obtain his bachelor of science degree at Beloit (WI) College in 1923, and a master of science degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1928. He also did graduate work at the University of Minnesota.

Surviving with his widow, the former Vivian Ethel Hipple, are a daughter, Emalie Isobel [Mrs. Lowell Lee] Stewart of Costa Mesa, AZ; a brother, Myron Heyerdahl of Temple Bar, AZ; and two sisters, Mrs. Talma Fossum of Beloit, WI, and Mrs. Gladys Furry of Ventura, CA.
--Lafayette Journal & Courier - Tue 1/3/1967, page 6


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