Yolo County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....FLACH , Klaus Werner July 8 2004 ********************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/obits/ca/obitsca.htm ********************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Peggy B. Perazzo pbperazzo@comcast.net January 12, 2005, 12:55 am "The Davis Enterprise," Monday, July 12, 2004 Klaus W. Flach Soil scientist and Davis resident Klaus Werner Flach died July 8, 2004, at Sutter Davis Hospital. He was 77. A native of Germany, he was born March 24, 1927, in Kolbermoor, Bavaria, to Werner and Bianca Kolmgren Flach. He earned a bachelor's degree in agriculture at the Technical University of Munich. He moved to the United States in 1950 and earned a master's and doctorate in soil science at Cornell University. During his 30-year career with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service, he was a research soil scientist and, in Washington, D.C., was director of the Soil Survey and associate deputy chief for Natural Resource Assessment. He represented the United States on a variety of international and United Nations environmental summits and was a leader in improving the technology for classification of soils. After retiring in 1988, he became a senior research scholar at Colorado State University and taught at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He is a fellow of the Soil Science Society of America and a member of the German Soil Science Society and Sigma Xi. Survivors include his wife, Helen Flach of Davis, his son Andrew Flach of Tucson, Ariz., his daughter Martha Flach of New York City, his brother Andreas Flach of Tubingen, Germany, and stepdaughters Marsha Stephens and Marian Gilbert of Virginia and Marla Gilbert of West Virginia. He was preceded in death by his first wife Elisabeth Goding Flach. A memorial service is scheduled for 11 a.m. Tuesday at the sanctuary at Davis Community Church, 412 C St. A reception and celebration of life will follow in the adjoining Fireside Room. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in his memory to the Smithsonian Institution Soils Exhibit, care of the Soil Science Society of America Agronomic Science Foundation, 677 S. Segoe Road, Madison, WI 53711. He was a member of the Smithsonian Exhibit design committee and, according to his family, was intent on seeing that an educational exhibit on soils become part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Arrangements are under the direction of Davis Funeral Chapel. Additional Comments: Submitted with the permission of the "The Davis Enterprise." (315 G Street, Davis, CA 95616) . File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/yolo/obits/gob4537flach.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/caobfiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb