Robert J. Nordstrom, 78, Bismarck, died Jan. 17, 2001 in a local hospital. Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday, at Lord of Life Lutheran Church, Bismarck, with the Rev. Lisa Ahlness officiating. Burial will be in the spring in the Baldwin Cemetery, Baldwin.

Visitation will be from 3-9 p.m. today, 1-9 p.m. Sunday, both at Eastgate Funeral Service, Bismarck, and one hour prior to the service at the church.

Robert John Nordstrom was born Feb. 9, 1922 at Bismarck, to John and Nellie (Peterson) Nordstrom. He was raised and educated in Bismarck, graduating from Bismarck High School in 1940. He then moved to Portland, Ore., where he worked in a defense plant until he entered the U.S. Army on Jan. 27, 1943. He spent three years in the Army; two years in China, Burma, India Theater. He was discharged on Jan. 27, 1946 and returned to Bsimarck where he worked construction. On March 4, 1947, he married Florence Wessel in Bismarck. He worked for the North Dakota State Park Service for 19 years.

He was a member of the Capitol City Coin Club and the Three Crowns Society.

He is survived by his wife, Florence; his children and their spouses, Ronald and Susan, Spring Hill, Fla., Dr. Donald and Penny, Sioux Falls, S.D., Dr. Robert and Joan, Bismarck, David, Bismarck, James and Bernice, Overland Park, Kan., and Dr. Kathleen and James Breidenbach, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; eight grandchildren, Lisa, Nicholas, Martin, Leah, Thomas, Amie, Amanda and Richard Nordstrom; two step-grandchildren, Andy and his wife, Erin McDannold and Raina McDannold; his mother-in-law, Ida Wessel; four sisters, Viola Kline, Winchester, Va., Emy Beardsley, Olympia, Wash., Anna Mae Haas, Elgin, and Mary Weixel, West Fargo; and two brothers, Norman Nordstrom, Deerwood, Minn., and Gilbert Nordstrom, Bismarck.

He was preceded in death by one brother, Henry Nordstrom, and one sister, Rose Marie Alton. (Eastgate Funeral Service, Bismarck)