John Arvid Westeng was born April 20, 1918 in Norway.  He came with his parents to the United States at age five, first to Wisconsin and then settling in Hartland, Minnesota.  John attended Hartland School and worked as a carpenter with his dad.

He enlisted in the Army from 1939-1941 and after Pearl Harbor he re-enlisted in the Navy where he served until his retirement in 1974.  John worked in maintenance and woodworking at the dry docks in San Francisco.  During his service time he was selected to work as part of the crew on the Polaris Missile System.  John lived in Redwood City, California until he moved to Albert Lea, Minnesota in 2001.  He was a member of Messiah Lutheran Church, Redwood City.

John is preceded in death by his wives Klennie and Gladys, his parents Andrew and Kari (Lundberg and her second husband Leonard Ersland) Westeng and his brother and sister-in-law Melford and Marian Westeng of Hartland.

Left to remember John’s stories are his nephew and wife, Jim and LaJean (Berg) Westeng, his nieces and husbands Becky and Alert Thofson and Janet and Bruce Himmerich of Albert Lea.  John is also survived by step-children Jerry Briggs and Pat Briggs in California and Carol Jean Redman and her daughter Leslie in Louisiana, eight great nephews and nieces and seventeen great-great nephews and nieces.

We will miss you John-John.  Blessed be his memory.