QUACKENBUSH, Claude Fulton

Claude Fulton Quackenbush, 75, one of the leading engineers in developing plutonium for atomic reactors and reliability engineer for General Electric at Cape Kennedy, the past four years, died Wednesday, Oct. 10, 1969, in Phoenix VA Hospital. Mr. Quackenbush, 223 S. Mesa Drive, moved to Mesa three months ago. He helped develop the B-17 and B-29 during several years as an engineer for Boeing Aircraft. The past 23 years, he was a mechanical and electrical engineer for GE. His career included writing books and manuals on diesel engines and heavy hydraulics. He was a high priest in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, served in the bishopric of a Bellingham, Wash., ward, a member of the LDS Stake High Council in Richland, Wash., and served as an Army lieutenant in World War I. He was born in Bellingham. Survivors include his wife, Anna Turley Quackenbush; two sons, Stanley and Louis, both of Illinois; a brother of Vancouver, B.C.; and six grandchildren. Services will be at 10 a.m. tomorrow in Gibbons Mortuary, 33 N. Sirrine. Burial will be in Mesa Cemetery. Published Friday, December 12, 1969, in the Arizona Republic, p. 34.