Kerrville Daily Times (TX) - Wednesday, October 26, 2016
KERRVILLE — Robert Charles Munson, 87, of Kerrville, passed away Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016.
He was born Oct. 5, 1929, in Oneonta, New York, the second of three sons born to C. William Munson Sr. and Helen Reynolds Munson.
He was an honor student in high school and was selected as captain of the football, basketball and baseball teams by his teammates.
After high school, he enrolled in the School of Civil Engineering, a five-year program, at Cornell University. He graduated in 1951 and, shortly thereafter, he was commissioned as an ensign in the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
One of his first assignments took him to Seattle, Washington, for ship duty in Alaska. While in port, on election night in 1952, he met Loretta Gardner on a blind date at the Young Republicans Club — they were married a year later on Nov. 22, 1953. They had three children, Craig (deceased), Jana and Melinda, and now have a granddaughter, two grandsons, three great-grandchildren, two step-grandsons and a step-granddaughter and four step-great-grandchildren.
During his career, he served on seven different USC&GS ships doing hydrographic surveys in the Pribilof Islands and Bering Sea, Puget Sound, Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea and finally in the North Atlantic Ocean in support of the Continental Drift Theory and researching the origin of the Gulf Stream.
He also was officer in charge of the Honolulu Seismic and Geomagnetic Observatory and director of the National Tsunami Warning System for the Pacific region. A later assignment took him back to Hawaii as director of the International Tsunami Warning System.
He was U.S. Representative for Commission IV, Hydrographic Surveying, International Federation of Surveyors (FIG). He served a term as executive secretary of the commission and attended the triennial meetings in Sweden, Australia, Norway, New Zealand, Canada, Spain, Bulgaria and Finland. He served as national director of the Society of American Military Engineers and president of the Washington, D.C., chapter. He was NOAA representative for charts and maps on the US/Canada Committee for the defense of North America. He was elected the first non-British president of the Hydrographic Society based in London. He served two terms.
He retired in December 1984, and he and Loretta moved to Kerrville, where he became very active in St. Peter's Episcopal Church. He was a licensed lay reader/Eucharistic minister served on the vestry twice, junior warden and senior warden, school board, assistant treasurer for 20 years, delegate or alternate delegate to Episcopal General Conventions three times, delegate to the church council every year for 21 years. He was involved in the election of three Bishops. In the Diocese, he served on the executive committee twice and the standing committee.
He worked for 15 years with Christian Assistance Ministry.
He was involved with KAIROS prison ministry and served on nine of the weekends at the Ferguson Unit in Huntsville, Texas.
Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28, 2016, at St. Peter's Episcopal Church.
Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Grimes Funeral Chapels of Kerrville.
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KERRVILLE — Robert Charles Munson, 87, of Kerrville, passed away Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016.
He was born Oct. 5, 1929, in Oneonta, New York, the second of three sons born to C. William Munson Sr. and Helen Reynolds Munson.
He was an honor student in high school and was selected as captain of the football, basketball and baseball teams by his teammates.
After high school, he enrolled in the School of Civil Engineering, a five-year program, at Cornell University. He graduated in 1951 and, shortly thereafter, he was commissioned as an ensign in the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
One of his first assignments took him to Seattle, Washington, for ship duty in Alaska. While in port, on election night in 1952, he met Loretta Gardner on a blind date at the Young Republicans Club — they were married a year later on Nov. 22, 1953. They had three children, Craig (deceased), Jana and Melinda, and now have a granddaughter, two grandsons, three great-grandchildren, two step-grandsons and a step-granddaughter and four step-great-grandchildren.
During his career, he served on seven different USC&GS ships doing hydrographic surveys in the Pribilof Islands and Bering Sea, Puget Sound, Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea and finally in the North Atlantic Ocean in support of the Continental Drift Theory and researching the origin of the Gulf Stream.
He also was officer in charge of the Honolulu Seismic and Geomagnetic Observatory and director of the National Tsunami Warning System for the Pacific region. A later assignment took him back to Hawaii as director of the International Tsunami Warning System.
He was U.S. Representative for Commission IV, Hydrographic Surveying, International Federation of Surveyors (FIG). He served a term as executive secretary of the commission and attended the triennial meetings in Sweden, Australia, Norway, New Zealand, Canada, Spain, Bulgaria and Finland. He served as national director of the Society of American Military Engineers and president of the Washington, D.C., chapter. He was NOAA representative for charts and maps on the US/Canada Committee for the defense of North America. He was elected the first non-British president of the Hydrographic Society based in London. He served two terms.
He retired in December 1984, and he and Loretta moved to Kerrville, where he became very active in St. Peter's Episcopal Church. He was a licensed lay reader/Eucharistic minister served on the vestry twice, junior warden and senior warden, school board, assistant treasurer for 20 years, delegate or alternate delegate to Episcopal General Conventions three times, delegate to the church council every year for 21 years. He was involved in the election of three Bishops. In the Diocese, he served on the executive committee twice and the standing committee.
He worked for 15 years with Christian Assistance Ministry.
He was involved with KAIROS prison ministry and served on nine of the weekends at the Ferguson Unit in Huntsville, Texas.
Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28, 2016, at St. Peter's Episcopal Church.
Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Grimes Funeral Chapels of Kerrville.
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Kerrville Daily Times (TX) - Wednesday, October 26, 2016
KERRVILLE — Robert Charles Munson, 87, of Kerrville, passed away Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016.
He was born Oct. 5, 1929, in Oneonta, New York, the second of three sons born to C. William Munson Sr. and Helen Reynolds Munson.
He was an honor student in high school and was selected as captain of the football, basketball and baseball teams by his teammates.
After high school, he enrolled in the School of Civil Engineering, a five-year program, at Cornell University. He graduated in 1951 and, shortly thereafter, he was commissioned as an ensign in the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
One of his first assignments took him to Seattle, Washington, for ship duty in Alaska. While in port, on election night in 1952, he met Loretta Gardner on a blind date at the Young Republicans Club — they were married a year later on Nov. 22, 1953. They had three children, Craig (deceased), Jana and Melinda, and now have a granddaughter, two grandsons, three great-grandchildren, two step-grandsons and a step-granddaughter and four step-great-grandchildren.
During his career, he served on seven different USC&GS ships doing hydrographic surveys in the Pribilof Islands and Bering Sea, Puget Sound, Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea and finally in the North Atlantic Ocean in support of the Continental Drift Theory and researching the origin of the Gulf Stream.
He also was officer in charge of the Honolulu Seismic and Geomagnetic Observatory and director of the National Tsunami Warning System for the Pacific region. A later assignment took him back to Hawaii as director of the International Tsunami Warning System.
He was U.S. Representative for Commission IV, Hydrographic Surveying, International Federation of Surveyors (FIG). He served a term as executive secretary of the commission and attended the triennial meetings in Sweden, Australia, Norway, New Zealand, Canada, Spain, Bulgaria and Finland. He served as national director of the Society of American Military Engineers and president of the Washington, D.C., chapter. He was NOAA representative for charts and maps on the US/Canada Committee for the defense of North America. He was elected the first non-British president of the Hydrographic Society based in London. He served two terms.
He retired in December 1984, and he and Loretta moved to Kerrville, where he became very active in St. Peter's Episcopal Church. He was a licensed lay reader/Eucharistic minister served on the vestry twice, junior warden and senior warden, school board, assistant treasurer for 20 years, delegate or alternate delegate to Episcopal General Conventions three times, delegate to the church council every year for 21 years. He was involved in the election of three Bishops. In the Diocese, he served on the executive committee twice and the standing committee.
He worked for 15 years with Christian Assistance Ministry.
He was involved with KAIROS prison ministry and served on nine of the weekends at the Ferguson Unit in Huntsville, Texas.
Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28, 2016, at St. Peter's Episcopal Church.
Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Grimes Funeral Chapels of Kerrville.
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parent links courtesy Hardy Flanagan
KERRVILLE — Robert Charles Munson, 87, of Kerrville, passed away Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016.
He was born Oct. 5, 1929, in Oneonta, New York, the second of three sons born to C. William Munson Sr. and Helen Reynolds Munson.
He was an honor student in high school and was selected as captain of the football, basketball and baseball teams by his teammates.
After high school, he enrolled in the School of Civil Engineering, a five-year program, at Cornell University. He graduated in 1951 and, shortly thereafter, he was commissioned as an ensign in the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
One of his first assignments took him to Seattle, Washington, for ship duty in Alaska. While in port, on election night in 1952, he met Loretta Gardner on a blind date at the Young Republicans Club — they were married a year later on Nov. 22, 1953. They had three children, Craig (deceased), Jana and Melinda, and now have a granddaughter, two grandsons, three great-grandchildren, two step-grandsons and a step-granddaughter and four step-great-grandchildren.
During his career, he served on seven different USC&GS ships doing hydrographic surveys in the Pribilof Islands and Bering Sea, Puget Sound, Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea and finally in the North Atlantic Ocean in support of the Continental Drift Theory and researching the origin of the Gulf Stream.
He also was officer in charge of the Honolulu Seismic and Geomagnetic Observatory and director of the National Tsunami Warning System for the Pacific region. A later assignment took him back to Hawaii as director of the International Tsunami Warning System.
He was U.S. Representative for Commission IV, Hydrographic Surveying, International Federation of Surveyors (FIG). He served a term as executive secretary of the commission and attended the triennial meetings in Sweden, Australia, Norway, New Zealand, Canada, Spain, Bulgaria and Finland. He served as national director of the Society of American Military Engineers and president of the Washington, D.C., chapter. He was NOAA representative for charts and maps on the US/Canada Committee for the defense of North America. He was elected the first non-British president of the Hydrographic Society based in London. He served two terms.
He retired in December 1984, and he and Loretta moved to Kerrville, where he became very active in St. Peter's Episcopal Church. He was a licensed lay reader/Eucharistic minister served on the vestry twice, junior warden and senior warden, school board, assistant treasurer for 20 years, delegate or alternate delegate to Episcopal General Conventions three times, delegate to the church council every year for 21 years. He was involved in the election of three Bishops. In the Diocese, he served on the executive committee twice and the standing committee.
He worked for 15 years with Christian Assistance Ministry.
He was involved with KAIROS prison ministry and served on nine of the weekends at the Ferguson Unit in Huntsville, Texas.
Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28, 2016, at St. Peter's Episcopal Church.
Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Grimes Funeral Chapels of Kerrville.
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