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San Diego Union-Tribune from 1/6/2004 - 1/7/2004
CARLSON VERNON L.(OLE) Vernon Lyman Carlson was born at Havre, Mont on January 8, 1922 and
passed over on October 14, 2003. The family came to Vista, Calif. in 1931. He graduated
Vista, Calif. High School in June 1940, enlisting that month in the US Marine Corps. He
was in the Detachment of Marines, USS West Virginia when she was sunk at Pearl Harbor on
Dec. 7, ' 41. Subsequent assignments included defense of Midway; training mortarmen at
then Camp Elliot, Calif.; 1st Prov. Marine Brigade, Guadalcanal, preparing to invade Guam;
the Guam Operation; Okinawan Operation with the Sixth Marine Division, then to China with
the same Division disarming Japanese. "Ole" was honorably separated from the
USMC on June 17, 1946. He attended San Diego State College for one year then transferred
to the Univ. of Montana at Bozeman, Mont. He married Belma (Peggy) Brown, a former USMC
Aux. in 1948, graduating with a degree in Civil Engineering in June 1950. His career in
that field took him to !
many places. Knoxville, Tenn.; the Arabian nation of Aden; Kuwait; France; Mexico; Libya;
El Cajon, Calif.; Phillipines; Thailand; Vietnam; and Moffat, Calif., to name a few. He
retired to Alabama, the home State of Peggy who passed over three months before he
succumbed to a series of strokes. They had no children. His survivors are brothers Carsten
D. Carlson of San Marcos, Calif., and Charles R.(Ole II) Carlson of Sultan, Wash., sister
Sarah E. Jones of Ridgecrest, Calif., and several nieces and nephews. His ashes will be
placed in a niche at the Cemetery, Fort Rosecrans, Calif. where his father has rested
since October ' 60.A memorial service and military honors will be provided by the
USMCRD, San Diego at Fort Rosecrans Cemetery commencing at 1 p.m., January 9, 2004.