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| birth_place=Gillette, Campbell County, Wyoming
| birth_place=Gillette, Campbell County, Wyoming
| death_date=April 27, 2004 (aged 76)
| death_date=April 27, 2004 (aged 76)
| death_place=[[Cheyenne, Wyoming|Cheyenne]], Laramie County, Wyoming
| death_place=[[Cheyenne (city)|Cheyenne]], Laramie County, Wyoming
|spouse=Mary Virginia Ryan Ostlund (married 1952-2004, his death)
|spouse=Mary Virginia Ryan Ostlund (married 1952-2004, his death)
|children=Peg Ostlund<br/>
|children=Peg Ostlund<br>
John Ostlund, Jr.<br/>
John Ostlund, Jr.<br>
Nancy Ostlund Essery<br/>
Nancy Ostlund Essery<br>
Tom Ostlund<br/>
Tom Ostlund<br>
Karin Ostlund<br/>
Karin Ostlund<br>
Patrick Ostlund<br/>
Patrick Ostlund<br>
Jane Ostlund Gebhart<br/>
Jane Ostlund Gebhart<b/>
Scott Ostlund
Scott Ostlund
|occupation=[[Business]]man
|occupation=[[Business]]man
|footnotes='''Notes''':<br>
|footnotes='''Notes''':<br>
(1) Ostlund came within 2,378 votes (1 percent) of winning the [[Wyoming]] [[Governor|gubernatorial]] [[general election]] of 1978.<br/>
(1) Ostlund came within 2,378 votes (1 percent) of winning the [[Wyoming]] [[Governor|gubernatorial]] [[general election]] of 1978.<br>
(2) Ostlund's Wyoming State Senate] service focused primarily on mineral development and promoting economic progress in the nation's least populous state.<br>
(2) Ostlund's Wyoming State Senate] service focused primarily on mineral development and promoting economic progress in the nation's least populous state.<br>
==Background==
==Background==
Ostlund was the second son born to Axel William Ostlund (1891–1982) and the former Mary Spence "Polly" Roberts (1902–1980) in Gillette in Campbell County in northeastern Wyoming.<ref>Social Security Death Index:http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi</ref> In 1944, he graduated from Campbell County High School and then entered Kemper Military School in Boonville, [[Missouri]], which closed in 2002. He received an appointment to the [[United States Naval Academy]] at [[Annapolis]], [[Maryland]], from Republican [[U.S. Senator]] Frank A. Barrett of Wyoming. He graduated in 1949 with the commission of [[ensign]] and served on the destroyer ''Meredith'' in the [[Mediterranean Sea]]. The diagnosis of diabetes required him to retire from the Navy in 1950. During a stay at St. Albans Naval Hospital on [[Long Island]], New York, he met the Navy nurse, Ensign Mary Virginia Ryan (born May 29, 1928). On January 13, 1952, the couple wed in Mount Vernon, New York. They settled in his native Gillette.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.stevensonandsons.com/Forsyth/2004%20Obits/Obit,%20Ostlund,%20John.htm|title=John Ostlund obituary|publisher=Stevensonandsons.com|accessdate=September 9, 2019}}</ref>
Ostlund was the second son born to Axel William Ostlund (1891–1982) and the former Mary Spence "Polly" Roberts (1902–1980) in Gillette in Campbell County in northeastern Wyoming.<ref>Social Security Death Index:http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi</ref> In 1944, he graduated from Campbell County High School and then entered Kemper Military School in Boonville, [[Missouri]], which closed in 2002. He received an appointment to the [[United States Naval Academy]] at [[Annapolis]], [[Maryland]], from Republican [[U.S. Senator]] Frank A. Barrett of Wyoming. He graduated in 1949 with the commission of ensign and served on the destroyer, ''Meredith,'' in the [[Mediterranean Sea]]. The diagnosis of diabetes required him to retire from the Navy in 1950. During a stay at St. Albans Naval Hospital on [[Long Island]], New York, he met the Navy nurse, Ensign Mary Virginia Ryan (born May 29, 1928). On January 13, 1952, the couple wed in Mount Vernon, New York. They settled in his native Gillette.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.stevensonandsons.com/Forsyth/2004%20Obits/Obit,%20Ostlund,%20John.htm|title=John Ostlund obituary|publisher=Stevensonandsons.com|accessdate=September 9, 2019}}</ref>
Ostlund and his brother, Axel Roberts "Bob" Ostlund (1925-2008), were involved in a multitude of business activities in Gillette:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/29891834/axel-roberts-ostlund|title=Axel Roberts "Bob" Ostlund|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=September 9, 2019}}</ref> John Deere Farm Machinery, plumbing and heating, sheet metal, banking, and the construction and op-2008)eration of motels and restaurants. Their interest also reached into manufacturing, [[real estate]], investments, agri-business, and mineral leasing and exploration.<ref name=obit/>
Ostlund and his brother, Axel Roberts "Bob" Ostlund (1925-2008), were involved in a multitude of business activities in Gillette:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/29891834/axel-roberts-ostlund|title=Axel Roberts "Bob" Ostlund|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=September 9, 2019}}</ref> John Deere Farm Machinery, plumbing and heating, sheet metal, banking, and the construction and op-2008)eration of motels and restaurants. Their interest also reached into manufacturing, [[real estate]], investments, agri-business, and mineral leasing and exploration.<ref name=obit/>