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memoriam Robert F. Starr, Cls 61, of Clearwater, Fla., on June 20. National Guard. Coast Guard. Architect. AIA. Harold Andrews Sumerford Sr., IM 60, of Birmingham, Ala., on April 6. J&M Tank Lines Inc. Board of the American Trucking Association. Georgia Motor Trucking. Chairman, National Tank Truck Carriers. Daughter: Julie Sumerford Johnson, Mgt 84. Son In-law: T. Stephen Johnson, IM 71. Granddaughter: Martha A. Sumerford, Mgt 08. Robert Franklin Warnock, ME 63, of Camden, S.C., on June 12. DuPont. Member, Kershaw County Board of Realtors. President, Camden Lions Club. President, KC YMCA.
>> 1970s Steven Hodges Becker, Cls 79, of Sylva, N.C., on April 13. Army (Sgt. 1st Class). Spirit Moving Service. Distance Learning Studio and Information Technology Services department, Western Carolina University. Mark Stephen Bohn, ME 72, of Golden, Colo., on March 28. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Founder, Rentech Inc. Ski instructor. Barton Douglas DeHaven, IM 71, of Covington, Ga., on June 7. Food service sales, U.S. Foods Inc.. Son: Barton DeHaven Jr., Mgt 02.
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. Owen Forrester, IM 61, of Atlanta, on July 1. Forrester was a U.S. District Senior Judge who was appointed to the federal bench in Atlanta by President Ronald Reagan in 1982. Following 23 years as a trial court judge in the Northern District of Georgia, Forrester took senior status in 2004, according to his obituary in the Daily Report. While a student at Tech, Forrester was better known for his passion for music than his expertise in the law. According to a profile in the Alumni Magazine, Forrester hosted a weekly TV show called Dance Party and a jazz and classics radio show. He even once filled in for Dick Clark on American Bandstand in Philadelphia. After graduating from Tech in 1961, Forrester studied at Emory University's School of Law and joined the U.S. attorney's staff in 1967. In 1972, Forrester became the head of Atlanta's Office for Drug Abuse and Law Enforcement.
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Robert Lee Hamilton, Arch 73, of Cleveland, Ga., on June 17. Gregory A. Moore, IM 73, of San Jose, Costa Rica, on April 13. Real estate. Robert R. Lee, AE 73, of Suwanee, Ga., on May 9. Hewlett-Packard. Bus driver, Forsyth County School System. Richard “Dennis” Llewellyn, NE 77, of Gales Ferry, Conn., on May 22. Georgia Tech ROTC (Naval officer). Navy. Electric Boat Corporation/General Dynamics. Senior engineer, Life Cycle Engineering. Donald E. Ward, EE 75, of Raleigh, N.C., on June 11. Marching band, Georgia Tech. Technology Modeling Associates. Triangle Shape Note Singers.
1980s Orville Douglas Ham, MS TSP 89, of Douglasville, Ga., on June 24. Marine Corp. Lockheed-Martin. Wounded Warrior Project. Jerry E. Kirkpatrick, ME 80, of Acworth, Ga., on May 6. Owner, Kirkpatrick Engineers. Gary Phillip Parker, Arch 81, of Marietta, Ga., on May 18. Owner, Gary P. Parker and Company, Architects. Instructor, Southern Polytechnic State University. Heery International. Project manager, Abreu and Robeson, Architects. Project manager, Warner and Summers Inc. Draftsman, Tomberlin Associates. Draftsman, Department of Plant Planning and Construction. Member, American Institute of Architects. William Michael Robinson, EE 86, of Severn, Md., on May 26. National Security Agency. Comic book collector.