- Born on March 4, 1919, at Orient, Illinois
- Grade school at Orient, 1925 - 1933
- High school at Frankfort Community High School in West Frankfort, Illinois,
1933 -1937
- College at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, 1937 -
1941, receiving Bachelor of Education degree
- Post-Graduate work in mathematics at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, Fall semester
of 1941, under tutorial fellowship
- Entered US Army Air Corps, February 19, 1942
- Married September 26, 1945
- Discharged from the Air Force, October 21, 1945
- Undergraduate work in engineering at University of Southern
California (USC), Los Angeles, California, 1946 - 1947, receiving BEng degree in Mechanical Engineering
- Post-graduate work in Engineering at USC, 1947 - 1948, receiving MSME degree
- Completed 15 units beyond Masters degree (toward a PhD) at USC, 1948 -1953
- Designer of piping systems for refinery construction contractor, 1947 - 1951
- Research engineer in Navy water wave project at California Institute of
Technology, 1950 -1954
- Engineer for Rockwell International in aerospace industry; worked on the Apollo moon landing and Space Shuttle programs, 1954 - 1984
- Four children (Tom, Tim, Terry and Marsha) and five grandchildren
- Retired from the aerospace industry in March, 1984
- Marshall Stelzriede passed away on January 1, 2005
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