John W. Klingelhoefer

John W. Klingelhoefer Sr., 65, of Evansville, Indiana died at 9:30pm Wednesday, July 6, 1994 at his home.

He was an Army veteran with 28 years of service, having enlisted at age 17. A veteran of both the Korean and Vietnam wars, he retired in 1974 as a Colonel.

He was a 1946 graduate of Bosse High School and received a degree in geography from the University of Nebraska; a Master's Degree in Soviet and East European Studies from American University and a Master's Degree in International Affairs from George Washington University in 1970. He attended the Army General Staff and Command College, U .S. Army Institute of Advance Studies in Germany, and the National War College.

He served as director of the physical plant at the University of Southern Indiana for 15 years, retiring in June 1989. After retirement, he worked as a consultant to the university with the Indiana Legislature.

He served as defense attaché in the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia from 1972 to 1974; as chief of Soviet and East European Studies, Army Intelligence for the Pentagon, as Chief of Staff of the Airmobile Brigade in Vietnam from 1970 to 1971, and as Liaison Officer to Soviet forces in Potsdam, East Germany, and West Berlin.

Surviving are his wife, the former Courtney Richter; daughters, Jean L. Stahnke of

Quadra Island, British Columbia, and Donna Rogers and Stephanie Grossman, both of Evansville; a son, John of Columbus, Ohio; his mother, Ethel Klingelhoefer of New Harmony, Indiana; sisters, Doris Rohlfer and Louise Jandebeur, both of Evansville; brothers, Carl of Armonk, N. Y., Kenneth of Indianapolis Indiana and Paul of  Evansville; and a grandson, Sean Klingelhoefer.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Alexander. Funeral Home North Chapel, with burial in Alexander Memorial Park, where full military rites will be held by a detachment from Fort Benjamin Harrison.

Friends may call from 5 to 9 p.m. tomorrow and from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.

The family said friends, if they wish, may make memorial contributions to Deaconess Ohio Valley Hospice.