Nathaniel French Caldwell was the son of Mary Emily French and Winston Saffell Caldwell, Sr.
Nathaniel was a graduate of the University of South Carolina at Columbia, where he was a member of Kappa Alpha Fraternity, and a graduate of the School of Law at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Mr. Caldwell was a retired reserve naval officer with service during World War II and the Korean Conflict. He was an attorney at Ingalls Shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi for most of his career, and since 1991 a student and research sociate at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he pursued his lifelong dream of an efficient thermionic converter, a device for the direct transfer of heat to electricity. In his latter three years of life, French inspired his family and friends with the valiant struggle against the effects of a major stroke.
Nathaniel married Gaynelle Marie Williams on February 21, 1953 at Clemson Methodist Church in Clemson, South Carolina. To this union six children were born, CDR Nathaniel French Caldwell, Jr. USN retired, Richard Bruce Caldwell, Bratton Claybrooke Caldwell, John Russell Caldwell, Gaynelle Marie Caldwell Goslin, and Shirley Allison Caldwell.
Nineteen grandchildren and Seven great-grandchildren.
Funeral Services were held at First Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tennessee.
Nathaniel was a graduate of the University of South Carolina at Columbia, where he was a member of Kappa Alpha Fraternity, and a graduate of the School of Law at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Mr. Caldwell was a retired reserve naval officer with service during World War II and the Korean Conflict. He was an attorney at Ingalls Shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi for most of his career, and since 1991 a student and research sociate at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he pursued his lifelong dream of an efficient thermionic converter, a device for the direct transfer of heat to electricity. In his latter three years of life, French inspired his family and friends with the valiant struggle against the effects of a major stroke.
Nathaniel married Gaynelle Marie Williams on February 21, 1953 at Clemson Methodist Church in Clemson, South Carolina. To this union six children were born, CDR Nathaniel French Caldwell, Jr. USN retired, Richard Bruce Caldwell, Bratton Claybrooke Caldwell, John Russell Caldwell, Gaynelle Marie Caldwell Goslin, and Shirley Allison Caldwell.
Nineteen grandchildren and Seven great-grandchildren.
Funeral Services were held at First Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tennessee.
Nathaniel French Caldwell was the son of Mary Emily French and Winston Saffell Caldwell, Sr.
Nathaniel was a graduate of the University of South Carolina at Columbia, where he was a member of Kappa Alpha Fraternity, and a graduate of the School of Law at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Mr. Caldwell was a retired reserve naval officer with service during World War II and the Korean Conflict. He was an attorney at Ingalls Shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi for most of his career, and since 1991 a student and research sociate at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he pursued his lifelong dream of an efficient thermionic converter, a device for the direct transfer of heat to electricity. In his latter three years of life, French inspired his family and friends with the valiant struggle against the effects of a major stroke.
Nathaniel married Gaynelle Marie Williams on February 21, 1953 at Clemson Methodist Church in Clemson, South Carolina. To this union six children were born, CDR Nathaniel French Caldwell, Jr. USN retired, Richard Bruce Caldwell, Bratton Claybrooke Caldwell, John Russell Caldwell, Gaynelle Marie Caldwell Goslin, and Shirley Allison Caldwell.
Nineteen grandchildren and Seven great-grandchildren.
Funeral Services were held at First Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tennessee.
Nathaniel was a graduate of the University of South Carolina at Columbia, where he was a member of Kappa Alpha Fraternity, and a graduate of the School of Law at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Mr. Caldwell was a retired reserve naval officer with service during World War II and the Korean Conflict. He was an attorney at Ingalls Shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi for most of his career, and since 1991 a student and research sociate at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he pursued his lifelong dream of an efficient thermionic converter, a device for the direct transfer of heat to electricity. In his latter three years of life, French inspired his family and friends with the valiant struggle against the effects of a major stroke.
Nathaniel married Gaynelle Marie Williams on February 21, 1953 at Clemson Methodist Church in Clemson, South Carolina. To this union six children were born, CDR Nathaniel French Caldwell, Jr. USN retired, Richard Bruce Caldwell, Bratton Claybrooke Caldwell, John Russell Caldwell, Gaynelle Marie Caldwell Goslin, and Shirley Allison Caldwell.
Nineteen grandchildren and Seven great-grandchildren.
Funeral Services were held at First Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tennessee.
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