Robert Keith Fagerholm ’47

Robert Keith Fagerholm ’47 of Madison, Wisconsin, died on March 23, 2015. He was born on May 6, 1924, and grew up in Rush Point, Minnesota, where he attended high school. He joined the Navy and was assigned to Dartmouth in the V-12 program. In college he sang in the Glee Club, played in the band and the Dartmouth Quintet. He returned to Minnesota to graduate from the University of Minnesota in 1948. He served in the Navy Reserve until 1968. He taught agriculture to veterans and students in Balaton, Minnesota, from 1949 to 1954, worked for the Woodman Life Insurance and Casualty Co. from 1963 to 1968 and was a vocational agriculture instructor in Peterson, Minnesota, from 1968 to 1979. He retired from teaching in 1979 and worked as the Midwest service manager for Hesston Corp. until his retirement in 1986. He and his wife then operated a dairy farm near Rock Dell, Minnesota. He enjoyed singing, hunting and fishing. He is survived by four sons and two daughters.