 He attended the University of Illinois and immediately after graduation received a commission in the Air Force.During the war Lundberg was an adjutant with the 387th bomb group and after the war he partnered with the group's flight surgeon to buy Culligan Soft Water franchises in Kewanee and Macomb, Illinois and Kenosha, Wisconsin.In 1948, after the death of his older brother, Brick returned to Kewanee to be near his father.