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- The Dispatch-Argus (Moline, IL)
August 7, 1993
Services for Albert Lloyd Nyberg, 80, formerly of 428 39th St., Moline, are 10:30 a.m. Monday at Oak Glen Home Chapel, Coal Valley. Burial is in Moline Memorial Park.
Mr. Nyberg died Wednesday, Aug. 4, 1993, at Oak Glen Home, Coal Valley.
He was born June 17, 1913, in Galesburg, the son of Albert and Orva A. Talbot Nyberg.
He married Jay Snook in June 1936 in Jacksonville, Ill. She died in 1937. He married DeAnna Kinsella April 11, 1985, in East Moline. She died March 12, 1990.
He was a tool designer at Swan Engineering, Bettendorf, for 15 years, retiring in 1964. He was a member of St. Anne's Catholic Church, East Moline. He was a former pilot that became legally blind in 1973.
In a 1989 interview with the Dispatch, Mr. Nyberg said: "I started flying when I was 13 years old. I didn't fly in the military or own a plane, but I belonged to several flight clubs over the years."
He enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1941, but they kept him on the ground for his expertise as an engineer. After military service, he joined an engineering firm in Bettendorf, and remained a drafter until 1963 when he was forced to retire, he said.
He also said he was in the 15th Air Force Division during World War II, and was a flight engineer for a B-24.
"I miss the sense of freedom when you fly," he said. "Flying is so easy and quick. It's not like a car or when you're walking. You can't get run over in the air. I know there's crashes and all the newspapers really note that, but what about all the people who die in car crashes or in bathtubs? You can die anywhere and in other ways than flying."
He was an avid sports car enthusiast.
Survivors include an aunt, Helen Talbot, Rock Island; and cousins, Donald Talbot and Wanda Blomgren, both of Moline, Dale Littig, Rock Island, and June Mason, East Moline.
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