Howard Nuernberg

Howard Herbert Nuernberg, 94, passed away on February 26, 2015 in Grand Junction, Colorado. Born on March 12, 1920 to Herbert and Mabel (Stevenson) Nuernberg in Milwaukee Wisconsin, he graduated from West Division High School. As a teenager, he worked evenings and weekends in his father’s meat market, as an usher in a local theatre, and delivering ice from a wagon in the summer. With his savings he bought a Willys Roadster for $35 while still in high school. He attended Marquette University in Milwaukee, where as a freshman, he won a boxing competition and retired from boxing, always preferring to quit while ahead. He met his future wife on a double date, but his college degree and their wedding were postponed due to the outbreak of World War II and his decision to join the Army Air Force. While on a furlough in 1944, he married Marion Esther Stewart of Green Bay, Wisconsin. Like many veterans, Howard used the G.I. Bill education benefits to complete his degree, Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering at Marquette. He joined the Sigma Phi Delta fraternity of engineers. A born salesman, Howard enjoyed a successful career with the Falk Corporation of Milwaukee, as regional sales manager for 29 years for the southern half of Ohio. Howard and Marion made their home in Dayton and then in Columbus, raised their four children, put them through college, and took care of their aging parents. After his retirement from Falk, he and Marion moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1986, where they continued vacationing in their Airstream trailer and made trips to Canada, Mexico and throughout the USA with the ‘Wally Byam Caravan Club’. Howard enjoyed mapping routes for many trips. To be closer to family, they moved in 2002 to Grand Junction, Colorado. In 2007, after 63 years of marriage, Marion passed away. Howard moved into The Commons and enjoyed playing poker with friends during the 5 years he lived there. He was an avid poker player having learned the game as a child from his father. He was handy, understood anything mechanical, and made a hobby of fixing things. He took on renovations around the family home and at the homes of his children. He had a great interest in sports cars and owned the first generation 1964 Ford Mustang and 1970 Datsun 240Z. He was fiscally and politically conservative, he lived moderately, worked hard, and appreciated a good joke and liked telling them. He was known for frozen daquiris at OSU football games and 1-2-3-Boom margaritas. Howard is survived by his four children: Susan of Santa Rosa, CA; Christine Kreissler of Tulsa, OK; Amy (Owen O’Fallon) of Grand Junction; Don (Patty) of Kent, WA; five grandchildren: Jonathan Kreissler, Kelly Jensen, Mabel, Hodna and Wynne Nuernberg; six great-grandchildren, and his brother Ralph (Marion) of Milwaukee WI and Ft. Myers, FL, and three nieces. His family is grateful to The Commons, GrandView Care Lodge, and HopeWest for their excellent care. No service by request.