Clifford Gustav Osterberg

Former Mono County resident Clifford Gustav Osterberg, 80, died Jan. 19, 2010.

Born May 31, 1929, in Los Angeles, the son of Swedish immigrants, he completed high school in Los Angeles and attended El Camino College.

In 1950, he enlisted in the Navy serving in Korea. In 1954, he came back to his old job with the Curry Co. in Yosemite National Park where among many tasks he was responsible for setting up the High Sierra Camps, operating Badger Pass Ski Resort and pushing the firefall off Glacier Point.

Mr. Osterberg moved back to Los Angeles in 1957, where he met and married Joy Walters in 1958. They raised three children in Hermosa Beach. Mr. Osterberg retired to Mono County after working more than 20 years at Northrop in Hawthorne, Calif.

He used his fly rod and royal coachman flies to deplete the trout population of several high Sierra streams and lakes.

Mr. Osterberg was preceded in death by his parents and four brothers.

He is survived by children Chris Osterberg of Newport Beach, Michelle Green of Minden and Steve Osterberg of Irvine, and five grandchildren.

He will be buried at Mono Lake Cemetery