Harry V. Braun (W2RKB), 87 of Dennis and Falmouth
died April 25, 2007 at home surrounded by his family. He
was married to Jean (Latimer) Braun (N1JCI) for 66
years.
Born in West Orange, New Jersey, Mr. Braun attended Newark College of Engineering (now the New Jersey Institute of Technology). He served with the 13th Infantry Regiment of the 8th Infantry Division in its journey across Europe during WWII. He received a Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and a Good Conduct Medal for his service to this country.
While living in New Jersey, he was active in his community, serving as skipper of Sea Scout Ship 20, teaching dozens of young men the basics of seamanship. He was an accomplished musician. He played several instruments and led a popular dance band in New Jersey. He also performed in the Livingston Community Orchestra.
Mr. Braun was an electrical engineer with Bell Telephone Laboratories for over 30 years. He lived in Livingston NJ, Fair Haven, NJ, and Aurora IL before retiring to Dennis.
A life-long ham radio operator, "Elmer" and teacher, Mr. Braun was active in the Falmouth Amateur Radio Association, the Barnstable Amateur Radio Club, and taught the FARA amateur radio classes at Falmouth Academy. Quite a few of our then younger members came through these classes.
In addition to his wife, Mr. Braun is survived by two sons, Kenneth and his wife, Valerie of Berlin, MA and David (N2NYV) and his wife, Kathleen (N2NSD) of Denville, NJ; two daughters, Barbara and her husband, Myron of Sedona, AZ and Beverly (KH6IPQ) and her husband, Samuel of Pearl City, HI; five grandchildren, Greta, Rebecca, Elizabeth, Christine and Timothy; and five great-grandchildren. For a while Harry had the largest family group of licensed hams in FARA (there are more of them than are listed here).
Harry, a once vital and loyal member of FARA indeed leaves yet another serious vacancy that will be difficult indeed to fill, if not impossible. Harry's ingenuity in doing things like printed circuit boards made the hacker's projects work as well as keeping them affordable. Harry eas never at a loss to solve unique problems and solve them he did, usually in a most ingenious way; when we were hard pressed to get the Rohn towers that we erected every Field Day apart, Harry produced novel hardwood tower jacks that made the undertaking a snap without damaging the tower sections. And then there was the computer hacker's group; Harry produced a novel Molex connector extraction tool that saved wear and tear on our fingers and made one for everyone in the group. As it's already been said, Harry was a lifelong student always eager to learn something new; his long lists of questions kept the computer hackers going for quite a while.
Born in West Orange, New Jersey, Mr. Braun attended Newark College of Engineering (now the New Jersey Institute of Technology). He served with the 13th Infantry Regiment of the 8th Infantry Division in its journey across Europe during WWII. He received a Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and a Good Conduct Medal for his service to this country.
While living in New Jersey, he was active in his community, serving as skipper of Sea Scout Ship 20, teaching dozens of young men the basics of seamanship. He was an accomplished musician. He played several instruments and led a popular dance band in New Jersey. He also performed in the Livingston Community Orchestra.
Mr. Braun was an electrical engineer with Bell Telephone Laboratories for over 30 years. He lived in Livingston NJ, Fair Haven, NJ, and Aurora IL before retiring to Dennis.
A life-long ham radio operator, "Elmer" and teacher, Mr. Braun was active in the Falmouth Amateur Radio Association, the Barnstable Amateur Radio Club, and taught the FARA amateur radio classes at Falmouth Academy. Quite a few of our then younger members came through these classes.
In addition to his wife, Mr. Braun is survived by two sons, Kenneth and his wife, Valerie of Berlin, MA and David (N2NYV) and his wife, Kathleen (N2NSD) of Denville, NJ; two daughters, Barbara and her husband, Myron of Sedona, AZ and Beverly (KH6IPQ) and her husband, Samuel of Pearl City, HI; five grandchildren, Greta, Rebecca, Elizabeth, Christine and Timothy; and five great-grandchildren. For a while Harry had the largest family group of licensed hams in FARA (there are more of them than are listed here).
Harry, a once vital and loyal member of FARA indeed leaves yet another serious vacancy that will be difficult indeed to fill, if not impossible. Harry's ingenuity in doing things like printed circuit boards made the hacker's projects work as well as keeping them affordable. Harry eas never at a loss to solve unique problems and solve them he did, usually in a most ingenious way; when we were hard pressed to get the Rohn towers that we erected every Field Day apart, Harry produced novel hardwood tower jacks that made the undertaking a snap without damaging the tower sections. And then there was the computer hacker's group; Harry produced a novel Molex connector extraction tool that saved wear and tear on our fingers and made one for everyone in the group. As it's already been said, Harry was a lifelong student always eager to learn something new; his long lists of questions kept the computer hackers going for quite a while.
Memorial donations may be made to the VNA of Cape Cod,
255 Independence Drive, Hyannis, MA 02601 or to the
Hospice Foundation of Cape Cod 765 Attucks Lane,
Hyannis, MA 02601.
