Pappy Engel (Leonard Edwin Engel Sr.) passed away today, 1/19/05, 2 days short of 85th birthday. He became an HP in 1981 at Turkey Point and retired after Shearon Harris 94 outage since he experienced a "mini" stroke on the way home.
His son Len Jr. is an Instructor at DOE, son Rick Bartlett HP, and daughter Diana a dosemitry Tech., and of course Marsha whom he introduced to Rick (he liked to remind that "she was my Honey first". Another two daughters not in the business, and 13 grandkids, and even 6 great grand children.
He loved being an RP and hated to retire, but he said he did not think he could be trusted 100% and did not want to jepordize anyone. Pappy was a 35 year retired Chief Warrant Officer in the Coast Guard before becoming an RP. He has a "family" web site and if nyone wants to see his face again (healthy) you may visit:
www.angelfire.com/ny/engelecke/ricks.family.htmlIf you have any "Pappy" stories, please post them as he would really like that.