Elgin Courier (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 128, No. 35, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 29, 2018 Page: 3 of 28
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 2018
ELGIN COURIER - ELGIN, TEXAS
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The influence of Camp
Swift and World War II
was prevalent during Eric’s
high school years. Elgin
and Bastrop were bulging
with service people and life
was fast and furious. And it
certainly took its toll on the
Carlson family. Eric’s older
sister Evelyn worked at
Camp Swift. She lost many
friends during the war and
this left its mark on her re-
maining life. His two broth-
ers, Glenn and Carl, were
both in the army and Carl
was killed fighting in the
Netherlands. His grave in
the Netherlands was cared
for by a Dutch family until
his body could be returned
three years later to Texas.
The war was over in 1945,
but the draft was still in ef-
fect and many of the boys
in the graduating class of
1946 joined the service.
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Home is where the heart
is, and Elgin has been home
to many. It has been proved
that people often want to
return to the place of their
childhood. They remem-
ber loving parents, caring
teachers, childhood friends
and values learned. Eric
Carlson has gained educa-
tional honors, participated
in United States and NATO
military tasks, satisfied a
lifelong desire and exhib-
ited his natural leadership
as he served as the mayor
of Elgin for 12 years. From
his birthplace in the Lund
community, through living
in many places around the
world, Eric is back at home
on Main Street in Elgin.
Oscar Carlson and his
wife, Mary, both came to
the Elgin area from Sweden
in the early 1900s; Oscar
came first, and 3 years later
Mary came. They married
here in Texas and raised
their family of 3 boys and 2
girls on the family farm in
Lund. They attended church
at the Lund Lutheran
Church and spoke Swedish
in their home. The children
did not learn to speak En-
glish until they started to
school. Eric started first
grade in the Elgin schools
in 1935 with Velma Lese-
man as his teacher. Then
the Elgin schools started
charging a tuition fee for
rural students. Mr. Carlson
refused to pay tuition and
Eric transferred to the Kyl-
berg School and continued
classes there. After comple-
tion of all the grades that
Kylberg offered, he came
back to Elgin to finish high
school in 1946.
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Eric Carlson joined the
U.S. Army and served two
years in Japan before dis-
charge. He was then able
to attend Texas A&M Col-
lege in College Station on
the G.I. Bill of Rights. He
liked military life and chose
to join the Corps of Cadets
even though ex-military
men could be exempt from
Corps life. His leadership
capabilities were devel-
oped and recognized and
in 1951 -1952 he was Corps
Commander. He received
his degree in Economics in
1952 and his commission
into the United States Air
Force. Following receiv-
ing his Wings at Connally
Air Base in Waco, he was
sent to bases in Arizona as
a flight instructor. He pro-
gressed in piloting various
upgrades of Boeing planes
until he was flying B-52
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planting and maintaining
flowers at public buildings
and highway intersections.
In 1994 Eric was ap-
proached about running
for mayor of Elgin. He
was a natural for this job.
His degree in economics
and his command of an
Air Force Base taught him
much about working with
different parties to create
harmony. He was elected
and served as mayor for
12 years - from 1994 until
2006. He realized the im-
portance of working to-
gether - with groups, with
businesses, with county
officials and with state
agencies. The mayors from
Elgin, Bastrop and Smith-
ville met once a month to
share questions, ideas and
solutions.
When asked to share his
highlights as mayor, he im-
mediately answered “ob-
taining a library for Elgin”
as the main achievement.
Elgin had been without
a public library since the
1950s. The library building
next to City Hall is a tribute
to this determination.
The memories of past
events come easy to Eric
and Marge as new mem-
ories are constantly being
made. Their grandchildren
are aware of Elgin as the
place where their grandfa-
ther was born, where they
can visit and learn of their
heritage and see a small
Texas town that appreciates
the work of Eric Carlson
both in his military career
and in his allegiance and
work for Elgin, Texas.
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bombers with the Strategic part of the U.S. Air Force
Air Command. The United with the North Atlantic
States was in the middle of Treaty Organization. This
the “Cold War” and large was a good time for the
planes loaded with bombs family as they saw another
circled the earth every 24 part of the world.
hours ready for wherever After 28 years in the mil-
help might be needed. itary, Eric decided in 1978
While in Arizona, Eric to retire and return to the
met Margery Rice. Marge Elgin area. It had been his
was from Southern Cali- home, and Marge was will-
fornia and a student at the ing to now make it her town
University of Arizona. As also. Eric still had family in
the relationship grew se- the area and he owned the
rious, Marge realized the original family farm. He re-
commitments and threats turned, but he did not retire
faced by Air Force wives from work.
and she determined that she One of his desires had al-
was able to withstand such, ways been to refurbish an
Eric and Marge were mar- old house. He overheard
ried in 1958 and she soon someone speaking on a
learned the attachment that public telephone outside a
Eric felt for his parents and business about being trans-
his home town. They were ferred and needing to sell
transferred to different his house. The house was
bases all over the continen- on the corner of Main and
tai United States and their 8th Street which had orig-
four children were all born inally been built by Otto
in different places. Eric Bengston, an early Swed-
experienced two different ish business man. This
tours of duty in Viet Nam two-story house needed
while Marge was calm and repair; however, it was
managing the children at large enough for Eric’s
home. four children and it would
In 1972, Elgin celebrated be a perfect place for the
its centennial and Eric’s Eric Carlson family. Eric’s
two daughters were in the desire was satisfied as the
Centennial Pageant danc- old house became his pride
ing with the Swedish group and joy
as the history of Elgin was Karen, Kelley, John and
portrayed on the football Marianne entered the Elgin
field. Their dad was Wing schools and Eric and Marge
Commander at Dyess Air began a long history of vol-
Force Base in Abilene and unteer work for Elgin. They
the proximity in Texas al- became active in their Lund
lowed Karen and Kelley to Lutheran Church, they
be introduced to a Texas joined service organizations
town that would someday and they delivered Meals on
be their home. Wheels. Marge was elected
After four years in as a school board member,
Abilene, Eric was trans- she taught an exercise class
ferred to Oslo, Norway as and together they helped
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1950 film: “Where
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in “Anatomy of a
Murder” (init.)
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primarily for______
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concrete” (city boy)
45 waffle in a box
46 dir. from Cross Plains
to Granbury
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48 kicker Elliott who helped
Cowboys win a Super
Bowl in 1993
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family that once lived
in TX but now extinct
in the wild (2 wds.)
52 beauty shop
back now, ya hear”
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(small)
17 hamburger veggie
(2 wds.)
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(2 wds.)
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first female governor
of TX
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on an__”
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ACROSS
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conquistador Juan
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sitcom: “Sanford
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Ginsel, Cindye. Elgin Courier (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 128, No. 35, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 29, 2018, newspaper, August 29, 2018; Elgin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1555455/m1/3/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Elgin Public Library.