Post by Rodney Trent Briles on May 15, 2008 11:43:54 GMT -5
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Malcolm Stevenson, 75, a retired sales engineer and longtime St. Charles resident who traveled the world with his wife, died Thursday, April 18, of complications from a viral infection in Delnor Community Hospital in Geneva. Raised in Elburn, Mr. Stevenson received a bachelor's degree in engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., in 1946. He served in the Navy as a decoding officer on an admiral staff ship in Norfolk, Va., and continued to serve in the Naval Reserve for 20 years, retiring as a lieutenant. He worked as a regional sales manager for 32 years for Connecticut-based Skinner Precision Instruments, which was acquired by Honeywell. In his job he engineered and sold electric solenoid valves, said his wife of 51 years, Frances. Later, he worked for six years for Herion Corp. of Germany, starting up distributorships in the Midwest. He retired in 1991. Mr. Stevenson met his wife in a Chattanooga, Tenn., hospital in 1950, while she was a nurse and he was her patient, recovering from a bout of Rocky Mountain spotted fever from a tick bite. He had been working in the area as a surveyor for a natural gas line. They married three months later. The couple lived in Elburn for 11 years before moving to St. Charles in 1965, where they raised two children. Mr. Stevenson was an avid reader and traveler. He and his wife visited more than 100 countries. "I think he was born to travel. And he was the kind of person who could talk on every subject. He read everything he could get his hands on," his wife said. "He lived life to the fullest." Survivors also include a son, Scott; a daughter, Sandy Dacus; a sister, Margaret Briles;[/color] two brothers, James and Robert; and three grandchildren.
THE BIN IS ATTEMPTING TO IDENTIFY THE MARGARET STEVENSON BRILES LINEAGE
