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Thomas Utegaard

Graduating Class of 1917
Served in World War II

Lieutenant Commander
Thomas Utegaard

Navy

Hometown

Wisconsin Rapids, WI

Date of Birth

Location of Death

Brooklyn, NY

Date of Death

Location of Burial

Saint Johns Lutheran Cemetery, Eau Claire, WI

More About Lieutenant Commander Utegaard

Lieutenant Commander Utegaard served in WWI and reported for active duty for WWII in January 1943. After his indoctrination at Norfolk and Williamsbury, Va, he was appointed public works officer at the U.S. Naval Supply Depot at Bayonne, N.J. In civilian life, he was a civil engineer with the Consolidated Water Power and Paper Co. in Wisconsin Rapids. He died of illness at the Navy hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y.