JOHN HALL, CALLED THURSDAY 3/19 TO SAY DONNA HAD CALLED TO REPORT THAT ALBERT DOLES OF OUR CLASS OF 45 HAD DIED MARCH 13 AND HE WAS BEING BURIED IN THE NATIONAL CEMETARY IN SANTA FE MARCH 19(??). SHE ASKED JOHN TO SPREAD THE SAD NEWS.

 

THEY MOVED TO SMALLER RETIREMENT HOUSING , PER DONNA'S LETTER 4/21/05, FROM THEIR RETIREMENT "SPREAD"-WITH-LANDING-STRIP OUTSIDE OF DEMING, NM, AFTER ALBERT WAS DIAGNOSED WITH ALZHEIMER'S.

 

IN ABOUT '98 BROTHER JACK, EHS 43, DIED SUDDENLY, AND HIS PASSING WAS A REMINDER, THEY SAID, FOR THEM TO VISIT WITH OLD FRIENDS, AS THE TIME MIGHT BE GETTING LATE.

 

ALBERT RETIRED AFTER SEVERAL YEARS AS A NAVAL AVIATOR, BEFORE ENROLLING AT KANSAS STATE, WHERE HE RECEIVED A DEGREE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING IN 1955. FROM WHAT I HEARD, HIS MAJOR PROFESSOR WAS SO IMPRESSED WITH HIM THAT HE TOOK ALBERT TO ASSIST HIM AT SANDIA CORPORATION, A CONTRACTOR IN THE ATOMIC PROGRAM IN NEW MEXICO.