From the Baltimore Sun
Frank Philip Scrivener, a retired State Roads Commission engineer who was in charge of highway maintenance in Maryland for 37 years, died yesterday after surgery at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center. He was 80.
A Mass of the Resurrection will be offered at 10 AM Wednesday at St. Pius X Church on York Road near Overbrook Road.
A state highways employee for 46 years, Mr.Scrivener was the commission's maintenance engineer from 1931 until 1964, when he was named assistant chief engineer for maintenance and operations.
During the last years before his retirement in 1968, he supervised snow removal, general housekeeping and the maintenance of state roads equipment, as well as coordinating all maintenance activities for Maryland's 4800 mile highway system.
Mr. Scrivener's achievements in highway maintenance earned him a national reputation in his field. He was responsible for initiating radio communications in state roads vehicles, and in 1941, when manpower was short because of World War II, he developed a prison-labor project as a way of keeping roads serviceable.
A registered professional engineer, he was a past president of the Maryland Association of Engineers and served on influential committees of the American Association of State Highway Officials and the American Road Builders ASsociation.
A native of Baltimore, he lived at 209 Register Avenue in Rodgers Forge.
After obtaining his high school education at Poly, Mr. Scrivener joined the Navy near the close of World War I. He had advanced to naval aviation instructor at Great Lakes IL by 1922, the year he returned to civilian life and joined the State Roads Commission.
He held both construction and maintenance posts before he became maintenance engineer nine years later and continued his education through adult programs at Loyola College.
Mr. Scrivener supervised the prison labor roads project for 15 years after its inception in 1941. In 1956, because of the growing load of general highway maintenance work, the program became a separate entity with its own director.
In addition to his wife of 56 years, the former Ida Elizabeth Dent of St. Mary's County, Mr. Scrivener's survivors include a daughter, Louise Carmelite Hangarter of Baltimore, 5 sons, Frank Philip Scrivener Jr. of Millersville, John Dent Scrivener and Keene Gwynn Scrivener both of Baltimore, William Boswell Scrivener of New York and Robert Kent Scrivener, of Pittsburgh, 25 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren.
Frank Philip Scrivener, a retired State Roads Commission engineer who was in charge of highway maintenance in Maryland for 37 years, died yesterday after surgery at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center. He was 80.
A Mass of the Resurrection will be offered at 10 AM Wednesday at St. Pius X Church on York Road near Overbrook Road.
A state highways employee for 46 years, Mr.Scrivener was the commission's maintenance engineer from 1931 until 1964, when he was named assistant chief engineer for maintenance and operations.
During the last years before his retirement in 1968, he supervised snow removal, general housekeeping and the maintenance of state roads equipment, as well as coordinating all maintenance activities for Maryland's 4800 mile highway system.
Mr. Scrivener's achievements in highway maintenance earned him a national reputation in his field. He was responsible for initiating radio communications in state roads vehicles, and in 1941, when manpower was short because of World War II, he developed a prison-labor project as a way of keeping roads serviceable.
A registered professional engineer, he was a past president of the Maryland Association of Engineers and served on influential committees of the American Association of State Highway Officials and the American Road Builders ASsociation.
A native of Baltimore, he lived at 209 Register Avenue in Rodgers Forge.
After obtaining his high school education at Poly, Mr. Scrivener joined the Navy near the close of World War I. He had advanced to naval aviation instructor at Great Lakes IL by 1922, the year he returned to civilian life and joined the State Roads Commission.
He held both construction and maintenance posts before he became maintenance engineer nine years later and continued his education through adult programs at Loyola College.
Mr. Scrivener supervised the prison labor roads project for 15 years after its inception in 1941. In 1956, because of the growing load of general highway maintenance work, the program became a separate entity with its own director.
In addition to his wife of 56 years, the former Ida Elizabeth Dent of St. Mary's County, Mr. Scrivener's survivors include a daughter, Louise Carmelite Hangarter of Baltimore, 5 sons, Frank Philip Scrivener Jr. of Millersville, John Dent Scrivener and Keene Gwynn Scrivener both of Baltimore, William Boswell Scrivener of New York and Robert Kent Scrivener, of Pittsburgh, 25 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren.
From the Baltimore Sun
Frank Philip Scrivener, a retired State Roads Commission engineer who was in charge of highway maintenance in Maryland for 37 years, died yesterday after surgery at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center. He was 80.
A Mass of the Resurrection will be offered at 10 AM Wednesday at St. Pius X Church on York Road near Overbrook Road.
A state highways employee for 46 years, Mr.Scrivener was the commission's maintenance engineer from 1931 until 1964, when he was named assistant chief engineer for maintenance and operations.
During the last years before his retirement in 1968, he supervised snow removal, general housekeeping and the maintenance of state roads equipment, as well as coordinating all maintenance activities for Maryland's 4800 mile highway system.
Mr. Scrivener's achievements in highway maintenance earned him a national reputation in his field. He was responsible for initiating radio communications in state roads vehicles, and in 1941, when manpower was short because of World War II, he developed a prison-labor project as a way of keeping roads serviceable.
A registered professional engineer, he was a past president of the Maryland Association of Engineers and served on influential committees of the American Association of State Highway Officials and the American Road Builders ASsociation.
A native of Baltimore, he lived at 209 Register Avenue in Rodgers Forge.
After obtaining his high school education at Poly, Mr. Scrivener joined the Navy near the close of World War I. He had advanced to naval aviation instructor at Great Lakes IL by 1922, the year he returned to civilian life and joined the State Roads Commission.
He held both construction and maintenance posts before he became maintenance engineer nine years later and continued his education through adult programs at Loyola College.
Mr. Scrivener supervised the prison labor roads project for 15 years after its inception in 1941. In 1956, because of the growing load of general highway maintenance work, the program became a separate entity with its own director.
In addition to his wife of 56 years, the former Ida Elizabeth Dent of St. Mary's County, Mr. Scrivener's survivors include a daughter, Louise Carmelite Hangarter of Baltimore, 5 sons, Frank Philip Scrivener Jr. of Millersville, John Dent Scrivener and Keene Gwynn Scrivener both of Baltimore, William Boswell Scrivener of New York and Robert Kent Scrivener, of Pittsburgh, 25 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren.
Frank Philip Scrivener, a retired State Roads Commission engineer who was in charge of highway maintenance in Maryland for 37 years, died yesterday after surgery at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center. He was 80.
A Mass of the Resurrection will be offered at 10 AM Wednesday at St. Pius X Church on York Road near Overbrook Road.
A state highways employee for 46 years, Mr.Scrivener was the commission's maintenance engineer from 1931 until 1964, when he was named assistant chief engineer for maintenance and operations.
During the last years before his retirement in 1968, he supervised snow removal, general housekeeping and the maintenance of state roads equipment, as well as coordinating all maintenance activities for Maryland's 4800 mile highway system.
Mr. Scrivener's achievements in highway maintenance earned him a national reputation in his field. He was responsible for initiating radio communications in state roads vehicles, and in 1941, when manpower was short because of World War II, he developed a prison-labor project as a way of keeping roads serviceable.
A registered professional engineer, he was a past president of the Maryland Association of Engineers and served on influential committees of the American Association of State Highway Officials and the American Road Builders ASsociation.
A native of Baltimore, he lived at 209 Register Avenue in Rodgers Forge.
After obtaining his high school education at Poly, Mr. Scrivener joined the Navy near the close of World War I. He had advanced to naval aviation instructor at Great Lakes IL by 1922, the year he returned to civilian life and joined the State Roads Commission.
He held both construction and maintenance posts before he became maintenance engineer nine years later and continued his education through adult programs at Loyola College.
Mr. Scrivener supervised the prison labor roads project for 15 years after its inception in 1941. In 1956, because of the growing load of general highway maintenance work, the program became a separate entity with its own director.
In addition to his wife of 56 years, the former Ida Elizabeth Dent of St. Mary's County, Mr. Scrivener's survivors include a daughter, Louise Carmelite Hangarter of Baltimore, 5 sons, Frank Philip Scrivener Jr. of Millersville, John Dent Scrivener and Keene Gwynn Scrivener both of Baltimore, William Boswell Scrivener of New York and Robert Kent Scrivener, of Pittsburgh, 25 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren.
