Robert Clayton Lilljedahl

Colonel (USAF) Robert Clayton Lilljedahl, age 93, died at his home in New Durham, NH on December 20, 2022.  He was born on October 14, 1929 in Lynn, MA to Henry Carl Lilljedahl and Dorothy (Varney) Lilljedahl.  Not long after his birth, the family purchased a farm on Teneriffe Mountain in Milton, NH and it was here that Bob, his older brother Carl, and his younger sister Shirley grew up. Bob attended a one room schoolhouse for the first eight years of his education.  He remembered feeding the pot-bellied woodstove to keep the schoolhouse warm in the wintertime.  As a first and second grader, he would listen to the lessons of the seventh and eighth graders, and always felt that his education was enhanced because of it.  Bob and his siblings would ski to school during the snowy winters of the 1930's, and as a result, he became an accomplished skier at an early age. Growing up on a farm, Bob learned lessons in animal care (horses, dairy cows and chickens), gardening, orchard maintenance, construction,...