JOE HOOTMAN

Joallan (Joe) Hootman, 87, died August 18, 2024, at Valley Senior Living on Columbia in Grand Forks, North Dakota. 
He was born on March 16, 1937 in Canton, Missouri to Joe C and Margaret Mae (McHatton) Hootman. 
He was baptized at Canton Christian Church. He studied at Culver-Stockton College and graduated with a B.S. from the Missouri University of Science and Technology. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University. 
He met Rosalie (Haeder) Hootman at Iowa State, they wed on June 27, 1965. They were active members of Immanuel Lutheran Church, where he served as an elder and participated in small groups to study the Bible, build friendships, and grow in vocational service to others. He married LaVonne (Kleven) Russell on March 8, 1997
 His public calling for twenty-six years was as a professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of North Dakota. There he won the Engineering School’s Outstanding Teaching Award on three separate occasions and launched many students into further study and professional contributions.
 From 1987-1990, he served as Editor in Chief of IEEE Micro, an academic journal of the IEEE Computer Society. His final field of research focused on how fuzzy logic could solve inter-microprocessor communication problems which could not be defined clearly. . 
 They served actively in the Gideons ministry providing Bibles to both those who want them and those who might not yet know they need them.
 Surviving are a sister, Marg Coker-Nelson; children, Joe Hootman and Janine Wilke;  stepson, Erik Russell; and six grandchildren. 
 He was predeceased by his parents, wife Rosalie in 1995, and wife LaVonne in 2019.
 Funeral services: August 22, 2024 at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Grand Forks. 
 Memorials: Immanuel Lutheran Church of Grand Forks at https://immanuelgf.org or The Gideons International at https://www.sendtheword.org.