Alvin O. Mosbo

Alvin O. Mosbo, 91, of St. Peter, Minn., died Tuesday, July 13, 2004, at the Community Health Care Center in St. Peter.

      The funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday, July 19 at the Swedesburg Evangelical Lutheran Church, with the Rev. Philip Borleske officiating. Burial will follow at the Swedesburg Church Cemetery. The family will meet with friends from 9:30 a.m. until service time Monday at the church. Memorials may be made to the A.O. Mosbo Scholarship Fund in care of the University of Northern Colorado Foundation, Greeley, Colo. The Honts Funeral Home in Winfield is in charge of arrangements.

      Mr. Mosbo was born April 12, 1913, in Rembrandt, the son of John and Tina Aas Mosbo. He married Marie Lindeen in Swedesburg Aug. 12, 1939. A graduate of Rembrandt High School, he earned a baccalaureate at Luther College in Decorah, a master's degree at the University of Iowa and a doctorate at Colorado State College of Education (now the University of Northern Colorado). He taught at Lincoln-Lee, a rural consolidated school near Albert City and was a junior high school teaching principal at Sheldon and a junior high school teacher at Davenport prior to serving in World War II. He served in the 112th U.S. Naval Construction Battalion on the islands of Oahu, Tinian and Okinawa. After the war, he returned to Davenport where he held positions of assistant junior high school principal, elementary school principal and assistant superintendent of schools. Moving to Greeley, in 1957, he was on the faculty of the University of Northern Colorado, teaching and serving as chairman of the department of elementary education and reading and on numerous university committees until retirement in 1978. For more than 50 years, he was a member of Phi Delta Kappa, a national honorary education fraternity, and was a member of several professional organizations and societies. In 1970 he received the University of Northern Colorado Outstanding Teacher of the Year award. At his retirement, the faculty in his department established an A. O. Mosbo Scholarship Award and the college of education presented him with a plaque in appreciation of service. An Appreciation Award was received from Colorado Jaycees. Publications include "Johannes and Anne Mosbo, Their Ancestors and Descendants from 1500s to 1985." He served on church councils and committees at Grace Lutheran in Davenport and Immanuel Lutheran in Greeley. He was a charter member of Greeley Golden K Kiwanis.

      Survivors include his wife; a son, John Mosbo of St. Peter; and four grandchildren and a great-grandson.

      He was preceded in death by his parents; a brother, Alton; and a daughter, Joan Binkley.