Obituary: Elgin Lewis Hushbeck Sr.

Funeral services for Elgin Lewis Hushbeck Sr., 80, a resident of Carson City for the past 13 years will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Walton's Funeral Home in Carson City.

Burial with full military honors will follow at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Fernley.

Mr. Hushbeck died July 18, 2003. He was born in Tillamook, Ore., but spent his childhood in northern Wyoming.

He served in the U.S. Army in WWII where he completed 24 combat mission flying B-17s deep into Germany with the Army's Eighth Air Force. Mr. Hushbeck was again called to duty in the Berlin Air Lift and fought in the Korean War flying 52 combat mission in B-26s. He also served tours in special weapons, space systems, the technology division of the AF Inspector General's Team.

Mr. Hushbeck was an electrical engineer and on of the space pioneers. He retired after 32 years in the Air Force retiring as a colonel.

After retiring from military service he worked as a real estate broker and as owner o the Hushbeck Land and Development Corp. He was elected to two terms as a Jancinto Community College trustee where he served as president for two terms.

Col. Hushbeck graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a bachelor's of science degree in electrical engineering.

He was a member of the B.P.O. Elks, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Retired Officers Association and the Republican party. He served three terms as president of the chamber of commerces in both Redlands and Cherry Valley California.

Among his survivors are his wife Trudy Griggs Hushbeck of Carson City; daughters Elgene L. Clabough of Rathdrum, Idaho and Trudy Ann Newman of Murrita, Calif.; sons Elgin Lewis Jr. of Redlands, Calif., and David Walter of Portland, Ore.; 10 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Walton's Chapel of the Valley is in charge of arrangements.