Jack Neale

Jack Neale 1922 – 2007 OGDEN - Beloved father, brother, Grandfather and Great-grandfather, Jack Neale, passed away Sunday morning after a long illness. He was preceded in death by his wife of over 50 years, Carol Neale, and his sister Mary Jane Groll. Jack was a WW II veteran, serving with the US Army in the European and African Theaters. After the war he returned to the states and enrolled at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania where he graduated with a BS in Science before pursuing his Master’s Degree at Stevens Institute of Technology. Jack was an accredited aerospace engineer, an early specialist in advanced dynamic fluid power systems, and later in solid fuel rocketry. His career began at Reaction Motors in New Jersey where he co-patented a fuel feed system. From there his career took him to McDonnell Douglas Corporation and finally to Thiokol Corporation where he did extensive work on the Space Shuttle solid fuel rocket motors and numerous other projects. After the Challenger disaster in 1986, Jack was named project engineer for the shuttle motor program, a post he retained until his retirement. Jack was extremely well read and counted military and railroad history among his favorite topics. His extensive library includes classics of literature and philosophy. He also enjoyed model railroads, stamp collecting, and stargazing. Jack is survived by his four sons, Christopher John, Jeffrey Paul, Douglas Walter, and David Andrew Neale, five granddaughters, a grandson, and a great-grandson. He will be sorely missed by us all. In a final letter to family and friends, Jack said: “But not to worry. I have spoken to the committee that handles such things and they have agreed to let me spend the next billion years wandering through the cosmos. Seeing things. Hearing things. Understanding things (Your mother agrees to all this.) So I will be out there. If you need me, call.” Services are to be held Friday, April 20, 1:00 p.m., at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, 2374 Grant Avenue in Ogden, Utah. Inurnment at the Episcopal Church Good Shepherd Columbarium. Funeral Directors, Lindquist’s Ogden Mortuary. Email condolences to the family at lom@lindquistmortuary.com