George A. Lindberg

George A. Lindberg was born 7-17-1914 Waukegan, Illinois and died 6-24-2011, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, just three weeks shy of his 97th birthday. He learned to fly while a teenager and went on to be a flight instructor in Ponca City for the British pilots who would go on to fight the Battle of Britain. During WWII he was a flight instructor in the U.S. Army Air Force and was also in the Air Transport Command. He married his wife, Jimmye, during WWII and moved to Oklahoma City. He was a man of many talents. He developed a fishing lodge on Lake Texoma. He owned a restaurant, The White Dot, in Chickasha. He sold asphalt for Allied Materials. He sold inventory systems to automobile dealerships and explored for uranium in New Mexico and Arizona with Frost Geophysical. His son always said that if he could have gone to Medical School he would have been a famous orthopedic surgeon. There was not a thing he could not fix. After he retired he made jewelry that was museum quality. That tradition was carried on by his daughter and granddaughter. He was active in Cub Scouts and teaching the neighborhood kids how to build model airplanes and how to use his tools to build boats and repair cars. He never turned down a kid in need. He was a Caterpillar salesman for Boecking Machinery and retired at age seventy to make jewelry and be an active member of the Oklahoma Gem and Mineral Society. He was preceded in death by his wife, Jimmye and his son, John David who was killed in action in Vietnam in 1969. He is survived by his son Dr. James P. Lindberg, an orthopedic surgeon and his wife Marlene, of Denver, Colorado, his daughter, Georgia Yang, and her husband, Harold, of Santa Rosa, California. He had six grandchildren, Wendy Lindberg, Jim Lindberg, Nova Wright, Kate Yang, Genevieve Yang and Houston Yang and three great grandchildren, Aubrey, Harrison and Enrique. In lieu of flowers donations in his memory may be made to Susan G. Komen For the Cure. Graveside services will be Friday, July 1, 2011, at 10:00 a.m. at Memorial Park Cemetery.