Albert E. Slade, husband, father, soldier, engineer, mentor and friend to all who came to know him died peacefully December 5, 2016, at a hospital in Mountain View, California. He was 93 years old. He died after a brief hospitalization following a year-long and valiant battle with cancer.
As proud as he was of his Northeastern U.S. roots, Al was actually born in San Antonio, Texas. As a young child, he moved to Gloversville, NY, where he settled in with his extended family. Gloversville, thus, became "home." This was the Depression and he remembers the family fishing, hunting and growing their own food.
As a sixth grader, Al moved with his family to Washington, DC, where his father had found employment as a government civil engineer. It was there that Al found a "challenge." It was a story that he was fond of telling.
It seems one of his teachers had told his parents that he–Al–was not college material. The sciences, it seemed, where just too difficult for him. He filed away that information and some years later, after serving his country in two theatres of World War II, Al finished college with an engineering degreeand graduating with honors!
In the meantime, after high school and Pearl Harbor, Al signed up and was awaiting assignment for a training spot with the Navy Air Force. The war intervened, however, and the Army stepped in, trading him a green uniform for the blue one he coveted. Basic training behind him, Al headed to Europe, engaging German fighters at multiple hotspots. He would later "ship out" to Japan in preparation of an invasion of that country, but the two atomic bomb drops hastened Japan's surrender and the war officially ended. He served in the Japan occupancy until being discharged.
Back home with new bride, Barclay Savin Slade, and his freshly inked college diploma in hand, Al headed for a career path. His interests leaned toward the development and design uses for plastics and an early version of microfiche film. While working stints with Arthur D. Little and other major companies in that field, Al left his design marks on multiple uses of film, film readers, libraries, and various inventory control uses.
Around 1969, however, Al faced a job change which moved him from Massachusetts to the San Jose area in CA, a city that would be home to him the remainder of his life. He often related that his early days in San Jose were the happiest work days of his life. He was one of the founders of Xidex, a manufacturer of microfiche. Al was chief engineer and designer, a position he dearly loved.
After an earlier marriage, romance again strummed across his heart strings. He met, courted and later married Diana Lynn. They had a son, Daniel, who together with his four children from his previous marriage, completed his family. Al and Diana enjoyed life, traveling the world for a number of years and traversing the United States by motor home. "Those were the really good years," he would often say.
Well into his 70s, Al worked throughout the Bay Area on various design projects utilizing integrated circuits. At age 80, he kept books and managed the speech therapy clinic that he and Diana, a licensed speech therapist, started. By age 88, however, he handed off his bookkeeping chores to others and, while busy still, he took time to care for the animal menagerie at home and the various plants and wildlife that populated the family backyard.
Ever a friend to those he met, a mentor to anyone who asked for help, a dedicated husband and father, he will be missed.
Al is survived by his wife Diana Lynn of San Jose, CA; his sons, Dave (Kayce) Slade of San Luis Obispo, CA, Steve (Colette) Slade of Ann Arbor, MI and Daniel Slade Lynn of San Jose; his daughters Cindy Slade (Richard Goering) of Aromas, CA, and Lynn Slade of Los Gatos, CA; and his sister, Beatrice Shafer, of Cape Cod, MA. Al is also survived by five grandchildren: Heather Slade, Curtis Slade, Bevin Slade, Adria Slade and Jansen Slade and three nieces: Beatrice Marie Shafer, Teresa (Philip) Rossbach, and Carol (Robert) Livingstone.
As proud as he was of his Northeastern U.S. roots, Al was actually born in San Antonio, Texas. As a young child, he moved to Gloversville, NY, where he settled in with his extended family. Gloversville, thus, became "home." This was the Depression and he remembers the family fishing, hunting and growing their own food.
As a sixth grader, Al moved with his family to Washington, DC, where his father had found employment as a government civil engineer. It was there that Al found a "challenge." It was a story that he was fond of telling.
It seems one of his teachers had told his parents that he–Al–was not college material. The sciences, it seemed, where just too difficult for him. He filed away that information and some years later, after serving his country in two theatres of World War II, Al finished college with an engineering degreeand graduating with honors!
In the meantime, after high school and Pearl Harbor, Al signed up and was awaiting assignment for a training spot with the Navy Air Force. The war intervened, however, and the Army stepped in, trading him a green uniform for the blue one he coveted. Basic training behind him, Al headed to Europe, engaging German fighters at multiple hotspots. He would later "ship out" to Japan in preparation of an invasion of that country, but the two atomic bomb drops hastened Japan's surrender and the war officially ended. He served in the Japan occupancy until being discharged.
Back home with new bride, Barclay Savin Slade, and his freshly inked college diploma in hand, Al headed for a career path. His interests leaned toward the development and design uses for plastics and an early version of microfiche film. While working stints with Arthur D. Little and other major companies in that field, Al left his design marks on multiple uses of film, film readers, libraries, and various inventory control uses.
Around 1969, however, Al faced a job change which moved him from Massachusetts to the San Jose area in CA, a city that would be home to him the remainder of his life. He often related that his early days in San Jose were the happiest work days of his life. He was one of the founders of Xidex, a manufacturer of microfiche. Al was chief engineer and designer, a position he dearly loved.
After an earlier marriage, romance again strummed across his heart strings. He met, courted and later married Diana Lynn. They had a son, Daniel, who together with his four children from his previous marriage, completed his family. Al and Diana enjoyed life, traveling the world for a number of years and traversing the United States by motor home. "Those were the really good years," he would often say.
Well into his 70s, Al worked throughout the Bay Area on various design projects utilizing integrated circuits. At age 80, he kept books and managed the speech therapy clinic that he and Diana, a licensed speech therapist, started. By age 88, however, he handed off his bookkeeping chores to others and, while busy still, he took time to care for the animal menagerie at home and the various plants and wildlife that populated the family backyard.
Ever a friend to those he met, a mentor to anyone who asked for help, a dedicated husband and father, he will be missed.
Al is survived by his wife Diana Lynn of San Jose, CA; his sons, Dave (Kayce) Slade of San Luis Obispo, CA, Steve (Colette) Slade of Ann Arbor, MI and Daniel Slade Lynn of San Jose; his daughters Cindy Slade (Richard Goering) of Aromas, CA, and Lynn Slade of Los Gatos, CA; and his sister, Beatrice Shafer, of Cape Cod, MA. Al is also survived by five grandchildren: Heather Slade, Curtis Slade, Bevin Slade, Adria Slade and Jansen Slade and three nieces: Beatrice Marie Shafer, Teresa (Philip) Rossbach, and Carol (Robert) Livingstone.
Albert E. Slade, husband, father, soldier, engineer, mentor and friend to all who came to know him died peacefully December 5, 2016, at a hospital in Mountain View, California. He was 93 years old. He died after a brief hospitalization following a year-long and valiant battle with cancer.
As proud as he was of his Northeastern U.S. roots, Al was actually born in San Antonio, Texas. As a young child, he moved to Gloversville, NY, where he settled in with his extended family. Gloversville, thus, became "home." This was the Depression and he remembers the family fishing, hunting and growing their own food.
As a sixth grader, Al moved with his family to Washington, DC, where his father had found employment as a government civil engineer. It was there that Al found a "challenge." It was a story that he was fond of telling.
It seems one of his teachers had told his parents that he–Al–was not college material. The sciences, it seemed, where just too difficult for him. He filed away that information and some years later, after serving his country in two theatres of World War II, Al finished college with an engineering degreeand graduating with honors!
In the meantime, after high school and Pearl Harbor, Al signed up and was awaiting assignment for a training spot with the Navy Air Force. The war intervened, however, and the Army stepped in, trading him a green uniform for the blue one he coveted. Basic training behind him, Al headed to Europe, engaging German fighters at multiple hotspots. He would later "ship out" to Japan in preparation of an invasion of that country, but the two atomic bomb drops hastened Japan's surrender and the war officially ended. He served in the Japan occupancy until being discharged.
Back home with new bride, Barclay Savin Slade, and his freshly inked college diploma in hand, Al headed for a career path. His interests leaned toward the development and design uses for plastics and an early version of microfiche film. While working stints with Arthur D. Little and other major companies in that field, Al left his design marks on multiple uses of film, film readers, libraries, and various inventory control uses.
Around 1969, however, Al faced a job change which moved him from Massachusetts to the San Jose area in CA, a city that would be home to him the remainder of his life. He often related that his early days in San Jose were the happiest work days of his life. He was one of the founders of Xidex, a manufacturer of microfiche. Al was chief engineer and designer, a position he dearly loved.
After an earlier marriage, romance again strummed across his heart strings. He met, courted and later married Diana Lynn. They had a son, Daniel, who together with his four children from his previous marriage, completed his family. Al and Diana enjoyed life, traveling the world for a number of years and traversing the United States by motor home. "Those were the really good years," he would often say.
Well into his 70s, Al worked throughout the Bay Area on various design projects utilizing integrated circuits. At age 80, he kept books and managed the speech therapy clinic that he and Diana, a licensed speech therapist, started. By age 88, however, he handed off his bookkeeping chores to others and, while busy still, he took time to care for the animal menagerie at home and the various plants and wildlife that populated the family backyard.
Ever a friend to those he met, a mentor to anyone who asked for help, a dedicated husband and father, he will be missed.
Al is survived by his wife Diana Lynn of San Jose, CA; his sons, Dave (Kayce) Slade of San Luis Obispo, CA, Steve (Colette) Slade of Ann Arbor, MI and Daniel Slade Lynn of San Jose; his daughters Cindy Slade (Richard Goering) of Aromas, CA, and Lynn Slade of Los Gatos, CA; and his sister, Beatrice Shafer, of Cape Cod, MA. Al is also survived by five grandchildren: Heather Slade, Curtis Slade, Bevin Slade, Adria Slade and Jansen Slade and three nieces: Beatrice Marie Shafer, Teresa (Philip) Rossbach, and Carol (Robert) Livingstone.
As proud as he was of his Northeastern U.S. roots, Al was actually born in San Antonio, Texas. As a young child, he moved to Gloversville, NY, where he settled in with his extended family. Gloversville, thus, became "home." This was the Depression and he remembers the family fishing, hunting and growing their own food.
As a sixth grader, Al moved with his family to Washington, DC, where his father had found employment as a government civil engineer. It was there that Al found a "challenge." It was a story that he was fond of telling.
It seems one of his teachers had told his parents that he–Al–was not college material. The sciences, it seemed, where just too difficult for him. He filed away that information and some years later, after serving his country in two theatres of World War II, Al finished college with an engineering degreeand graduating with honors!
In the meantime, after high school and Pearl Harbor, Al signed up and was awaiting assignment for a training spot with the Navy Air Force. The war intervened, however, and the Army stepped in, trading him a green uniform for the blue one he coveted. Basic training behind him, Al headed to Europe, engaging German fighters at multiple hotspots. He would later "ship out" to Japan in preparation of an invasion of that country, but the two atomic bomb drops hastened Japan's surrender and the war officially ended. He served in the Japan occupancy until being discharged.
Back home with new bride, Barclay Savin Slade, and his freshly inked college diploma in hand, Al headed for a career path. His interests leaned toward the development and design uses for plastics and an early version of microfiche film. While working stints with Arthur D. Little and other major companies in that field, Al left his design marks on multiple uses of film, film readers, libraries, and various inventory control uses.
Around 1969, however, Al faced a job change which moved him from Massachusetts to the San Jose area in CA, a city that would be home to him the remainder of his life. He often related that his early days in San Jose were the happiest work days of his life. He was one of the founders of Xidex, a manufacturer of microfiche. Al was chief engineer and designer, a position he dearly loved.
After an earlier marriage, romance again strummed across his heart strings. He met, courted and later married Diana Lynn. They had a son, Daniel, who together with his four children from his previous marriage, completed his family. Al and Diana enjoyed life, traveling the world for a number of years and traversing the United States by motor home. "Those were the really good years," he would often say.
Well into his 70s, Al worked throughout the Bay Area on various design projects utilizing integrated circuits. At age 80, he kept books and managed the speech therapy clinic that he and Diana, a licensed speech therapist, started. By age 88, however, he handed off his bookkeeping chores to others and, while busy still, he took time to care for the animal menagerie at home and the various plants and wildlife that populated the family backyard.
Ever a friend to those he met, a mentor to anyone who asked for help, a dedicated husband and father, he will be missed.
Al is survived by his wife Diana Lynn of San Jose, CA; his sons, Dave (Kayce) Slade of San Luis Obispo, CA, Steve (Colette) Slade of Ann Arbor, MI and Daniel Slade Lynn of San Jose; his daughters Cindy Slade (Richard Goering) of Aromas, CA, and Lynn Slade of Los Gatos, CA; and his sister, Beatrice Shafer, of Cape Cod, MA. Al is also survived by five grandchildren: Heather Slade, Curtis Slade, Bevin Slade, Adria Slade and Jansen Slade and three nieces: Beatrice Marie Shafer, Teresa (Philip) Rossbach, and Carol (Robert) Livingstone.
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