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Vernon Marvin Blixt
Lilah Crowe2023-04-23T19:38:27-05:00
- Name: Vernon Marvin Blixt
- Location of Birth: Evergreen Community near Bigfork, Minnesota
- Date of Birth: September 8, 1933
- Date of Death: July 5, 2003 (69 years old)
- Parents: Andrew Blixt and Ester (Manske) Blixt
- High School and Class: Bigfork High School, Bigfork, Minnesota
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- Highest Rank: SK3 (Storekeeper Third Class Petty Officer)
- Branch: Navy
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Korean Conflict
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Following service in the United States Navy, he worked in the mines for 33 years.
Surviving family includes two sisters, Shirley Thielke and Karen O'Loughlin; and two brothers, Dean and Douglas.
Preceding him in death were his parents and a brother, Wayne.
Buried in Itasca Calvary Cemetery at Grand Rapids, Minnesota. (Plot I-G-15-3-0)
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