Dustrude, Robert Brook "Bob" 97, of Swan Lake (Pengilly) died peacefully March 10 at St. Luke's Hospital in Duluth, with his daughter at his side. A memorial service will be held Sunday, March 25 at 1:00 PM at the Pengilly, MN United Methodist Church. Bob was born April 11, 1920, in Oconomowoc, WI to Willard and Ruth (Sheard) Dustrude. He is a veteran of World War II, flying P-51 Mustangs as a fighter pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps. He graduated in Mining Engineering from the UW Madison in 1948. After retiring from careers with Boeing and Hanna Mining in 1981, he continued to pursue a longtime avocation making and selling his Dustrude Folding Saws. Bob is survived by a brother, John (Louise), Friday Harbor, WA; 3 sons, Jim (Bjorn Davidson), Michael, and Mark; a daughter, Suzanne Dustrude Starr (Mark), two grandchildren, Troy Starr and Julia Starr, and several nieces and nephews. Bob was preceded in death by his wife, Margery, in 2010; and sister, Shirley Vick, Winneconne, WI in 2017. Even since childhood "Bobby" was an original thinker, inventor, and builder, creating his first functional car at age 12. After the war, and decades before 4 wheel drive SUVs became commonplace, he and Marge bought a new Willys Jeep to tow his handmade tent trailer on a honeymoon trip to Alaska the first year the Alaska Highway was open to the public. After settling in Minnesota, he built a log cabin using only hand tools, from trees he felled himself. In the age of big fins on cars, they bought the first VW Microbus in N MN which Bob promptly outfitted to sleep 6 for their annual 3 week camping trips to the coasts. For another of his passions the local paper named him the "Skate Sail King of Swan Lake". The man whose 1938 Salutatorian speech was "We Need More Air Pilots" later came to share the views of Dwight D Eisenhower on the dangers of an overgrown military establishment, and Charles Lindberg's reverence for the natural world. His realization of how few material possessions we really need, paired with a genuine empathy for those who struggle to simply survive informed a most humane world view. "Brilliant. And Good." was how one lifelong friend summarized Bob Dustrude. Active and healthy till the end, he breathed his last while on his feet. It is the hope of his family that our generations will succeed in stepping up to the challenges today as did the last to the challenges of their time.