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David Currier Strum

Posted 2009-04-24 by Judy Wight Branson
The Albuquerque Tribune, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Wednesday, June 4, 1997, page B8

David Currier Sturm, a computer scientist and forest engineer, was active in the community.

He made his home in Albuquerque in 1968 as chief computer analyst for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Sturm had served with the Army's 82nd Airborne Division from 1955-60. He returned to active service from 1985 to 1994, chiefly with a transportation battalion at Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Sturm, 63, died of cancer Saturday at his home. Services are scheduled for 1 p.m. Thursday at Fitzgerald and Son Mortuary chapel with the Rev. Sandra Bess officiating. Burial is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Saturday at the National Cemetery in Santa Fe.

"He was a mechanical and intellectual genius," said his daughter, Lt. Astrid Sturm. "He was an expert on forestry management; he programmed and designed computers; he rebuilt car engines and studied military history."

She said Sturm also coached and refereed games in Albuquerque's Young America Football League and was active with Habitat for Humanity.

Sturm was born and raised in Prescott, Arizona. He attended the University of Arizona and then graduated with a forestry degree in 1955 at Colorado State University.

In 1960 Sturm joined Southwest Forest Industries as a forest engineer in Maverick, Ariz. He joined the BIA in 1962 and moved to Albuquerque in 1968 from Washington, D.C.

Sturm earned a master's degree in public administration and computer sciences in 1974 at the University of New Mexico.

Survivors include his wife, Martha of Albuquerque; a daughter, Astrid of San Antonio, Texas; a son, Fred, the husband of Dorothy Sturm of Fort Worth; his mother, Elizabeth Sturm of Prescott; a sister, Carolyn, the wife of Tom Williams of Las Vegas, Nev.; a grandson; nephews and nieces.






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