Herbert Arnold Nordstrom

Herbert Arnold Nordstrom

• Father: Alfred Nordstrom
• Mother: Mathilda Hanson

• Herbert Arnold Nordstrom was born on 18 January 1892 in Starbuck, Pope County, Minnesota.
• He was baptized/christened on 6 March 1892 in Starbuck, Minnesota, in the Lutheran church.
• Herbert Arnold Nordstrom registered for the draft on 5 June 1917 in Pope County, Minnesota, while single and living in Starbuck, employed there as a freight clerk by Northern Pacific Railway Company.
• Herbert Arnold Nordstrom served as a corporal during World War I in Company C, 23rd US Army Infantry, 2nd Division.
• He married Ione Amanda Higgins, daughter of John Leonard Higgins and Caroline Martha Dunklee.
• Herbert Arnold Nordstrom died on 15 June 1924 at age 32 in Hennepin County, Minnesota.
• Ione Amanda Higgins became a widow at his death.
• He was interred at Fron Lutheran Cemetery, Starbuck, Pope County, Minnesota. Military grave marker was ordered by his widow, Ione (Mrs. William J. Peterson), on 16 August 1955.
• The following appeared on 10 October 1947 in The St. Cloud Daily Times: The first ship bearing the remains of American war dead from the Pacific zone has arrived in San Francisco, the war department announced today.
       . . . Following is a list of Minnesota men, killed in the war with Japan, whose bodies were returned to this country on the Honda Knot; (Next of kin in parenthesis) . . .
       . . . From outside the Twin cities and Duluth: . . . 2nd Lt. Herbert A. Nordstrom, army air corps (Mrs. Ione E. Peterson, Starbuck). . . .

• Last Edited: 14 Dec 2016