Born Jan 31, 1920 and raised on the family farm at Kenyon, MN, my uncle Levi Stanley Finseth graduated from Byron H.S. in 1938. He then enrolled at St. Olaf college and later enlisted in the Air Force in 1942. As navigator of a bomber crew he flew 35 missions in North Africa, but died with his crew when their plane was brought down by enemy action over Switzerland on October 1, 1943.
Memorial gifts in his honor were directed to St. Olaf's WCAL, the first listener-supported public radio station. In 1946 when I was born my parents named me after him.
Reposted from 2009 for Memorial Day.
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