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Bruce L. Meyer Bloomington, MN QCWA # 30414 Chapter 8 |
Name: Bruce Lawrence Meyer
Birth Date: 17 Sep 1921
Death Date: 6 Apr 2019
Cemetery: Fort Snelling National Cemetery Burial Cremation Place: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Age 97, of Bloomington passed away peacefully April 6, 2019. Born September 17, 1921 in Montevideo, Minnesota. Graduated Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis, enlisted in the Navy and served as Chief Petty Officer in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters during WWII as a radio technician and radar and sonar operator. Also served in the Naval Reserve in California during the Korean conflict.
Worked as a radio repairman, and electronic engineer for PAKO, Engineering Research Associates, Remington Rand Univac, Mobile Radio Engineering, and Control Data. Awarded four communications patents. Obtained his amateur radio licence (W0HZR) in 1946 and was a City of Bloomington Emergency Communications volunteer for 43 years, and member of the Navy-Marine Corps MARS group that used amateur radio to facilitate communication between servicemen and their families. He was a VEAP transportation volunteer for many years and a member of St. Luke's Lutheran Church in Bloomington. Preceded in death by parents, Dr. Clarence Meyer and Vera (Lawrence); brother, Fred; first wife, Dolores (Erickson); and second wife, Genevieve (Pittman).