Gorden Beito
d. September 25, 2012
Gorden Beito
Mankato Mortuary
1001 North Riverfront Drive
Mankato, MN 56001
507-388-2202
Michael Gorden Beito, age 65, was born June 12, 1947 in Winona, Minnesota the son of Gorden Watsby Beito and Georgian Rose (Forsyth) Beito. Michael passed away peacefully the morning of September 25, 2012 at Oaklawn nursing home in Mankato, Minnesota.
Michael was a Life Boy Scout, graduated from Loyola High in 1965 and served in the Marine Corps where he received aviation electronics training at the Naval Air Station in Memphis, Tennessee. Michael served a tour of duty in Da Nang, Vietnam at the Da Nang Air Base during the Vietnam War Tet offensive of 1969, as programmer, for the A6 Intruder Bomber. Michael attended the University of Minnesota, started his own electronics manufacturing company; Biofeedback Systems. He worked for Sperry, Winner Medical, Perkin Elmer, Tracor, Blackburn, and finally as Operations Manager for ProSurg, a medical device manufacturer, in San Jose, California until he suffered a stroke in 2005. Michael had been an avid scuba diver and he loved fishing, camping, hunting, building and flying rockets and radio controlled airplanes in the Sonoma County area of California with his son, Tommy, whom he adored.
Michael could be a handful for his parents while a teenager in the early 60s. His father once had to visit all the pharmacies in Mankato to tell them not to sell salt peter and sulfur to Michael, since he used them to make gun powder for his home made rockets and cannons. So Michael and his friends bought their supplies from pharmacies in St Peter instead.
Michael is survived by his father and mother, Gorden and Jean Beito of Mankato, brothers; Thomas (Elaine) of Rochester and David of Mankato, sister, Kathryn Ann (Mathew) Bjorkstrand of New Ulm and his Son, Thomas Joel Blake of Windsor, California.
A private family grave site Memorial Ceremony will be held at a future date. Michael's family are grateful to his dear friend and Marine buddy Gary Gosewich, the Veterans Administration, the staffs of Pathstone Crossing Assisted Living, Oaklawn Nursing Home and Mayo Clinic Health Systems Hospice for their kindness and loving care.
1001 North Riverfront Drive
Mankato, MN 56001
507-388-2202
Michael Gorden Beito, age 65, was born June 12, 1947 in Winona, Minnesota the son of Gorden Watsby Beito and Georgian Rose (Forsyth) Beito. Michael passed away peacefully the morning of September 25, 2012 at Oaklawn nursing home in Mankato, Minnesota.
Michael was a Life Boy Scout, graduated from Loyola High in 1965 and served in the Marine Corps where he received aviation electronics training at the Naval Air Station in Memphis, Tennessee. Michael served a tour of duty in Da Nang, Vietnam at the Da Nang Air Base during the Vietnam War Tet offensive of 1969, as programmer, for the A6 Intruder Bomber. Michael attended the University of Minnesota, started his own electronics manufacturing company; Biofeedback Systems. He worked for Sperry, Winner Medical, Perkin Elmer, Tracor, Blackburn, and finally as Operations Manager for ProSurg, a medical device manufacturer, in San Jose, California until he suffered a stroke in 2005. Michael had been an avid scuba diver and he loved fishing, camping, hunting, building and flying rockets and radio controlled airplanes in the Sonoma County area of California with his son, Tommy, whom he adored.
Michael could be a handful for his parents while a teenager in the early 60s. His father once had to visit all the pharmacies in Mankato to tell them not to sell salt peter and sulfur to Michael, since he used them to make gun powder for his home made rockets and cannons. So Michael and his friends bought their supplies from pharmacies in St Peter instead.
Michael is survived by his father and mother, Gorden and Jean Beito of Mankato, brothers; Thomas (Elaine) of Rochester and David of Mankato, sister, Kathryn Ann (Mathew) Bjorkstrand of New Ulm and his Son, Thomas Joel Blake of Windsor, California.
A private family grave site Memorial Ceremony will be held at a future date. Michael's family are grateful to his dear friend and Marine buddy Gary Gosewich, the Veterans Administration, the staffs of Pathstone Crossing Assisted Living, Oaklawn Nursing Home and Mayo Clinic Health Systems Hospice for their kindness and loving care.
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