Fred Eisele, of Fargo, ND, died August 17, 2021.
Charles Frederick Eisele, son of Harry and Bernice (Ayres) Eisele was born on a farm near Malcom, Iowa on December 15, 1920.
He graduated from Malcom High School in 1938 and from Iowa State University in 1942. He married Joyce Umlauf in Grand Forks, ND on March 21, 1942.
A graduate of the ROTC program at Iowa State he served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Aleutian Islands, Guam, and Okinawa from May 1942 to December 1945.
After World War II he was employed as factory manager at Omaha Steel Works in Omaha, Nebraska. In 1959 he moved to Fargo to become Vice President of Fargo Foundry, now Mid America Steel Inc. In 1968 he returned to school and earned his PhD at the University of Iowa. He was a professor in the College of Business at North Dakota State University from 1971 until his retirement in 1990. Simultaneous with his tenure at NDSU he was registered as a labor arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and arbitrated labor issues throughout the United States.
His wife, Joyce, preceded him in death.
He is survived by one brother, Frank, and two sons, James (Jill) and Jonathan (Michelle), as well as three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.