- SURNAME
Rodenberg
- FORENAME
James Conrad
- UNIT
38 Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron (3 A.R.R. Group)
- RANK
Captain
- NUMBER
- AWARD
Distinguished Flying Cross with oak leaf cluster,Bronze Star
- PLACE
South East Asia 1965
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 7.6.1936 Halstead,Kansas
son of Fritz and Emma L. (nee Thorp) Rodenberg
helicopter pilot
retired as Lieutenant Colonel
married Carolyn Rose Shomber 8.5.1960 (1 son John,1 daughter Wendy)
died 18.1.2017 Lynchburg,Virginia
Arlington National Cemetery,Virginia Section 55
James Rodenberg was born in Halstead, Kansas on June 7, 1936, to parents, Fritz and Emma Rodenberg, and passed away on January 18, 2017, at 80 years of age. In 1958, Jim graduated from Kansas University with a degree in Political Science and as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force. During his twenty-three year career in the USAF as a helicopter rescue pilot, Jim served at six stateside bases and was deployed overseas to Turkey (two years), Viet Nam/Thailand (two years), Japan (three years), and Burma as the Air Attach? (two years). When he returned from Viet Nam, he was awarded two Distinguished Flying Crosses, a Bronze Star and fourteen Air Medals. Upon retiring with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, Jim worked on Capitol Hill as a Special Assistant to Senator Paula Hawkins (five years) and then as a lobbyist for the Reserve Officers Association (eight years). He and his wife then established and operated the Belle Hearth B&B (nine years) in Waynesboro, Va. before retiring "for the third time", as he would say, in Lynchburg, Va.
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