Canyon County ID Archives Obituaries.....McConnel, Harry January 13, 1992
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The Idaho Statesman, January 1992
Harry L. McConnel, 83, of Sun City, California, died Monday, Jan. 13, 1992, in 
a Sun City hospital of natural causes.

Memorial services will be held Tuesday, Jan. 21, in Sun City. Memorial 
services will also be held at a later date at Franklin Community Church, 
Canyon County, Idaho. Private internment will be at Canyon Hill Cemetery, 
Caldwell.


Harry, an Idaho native, was born April 7, 1908, at Boise, a son of Walter H. 
and Bessie Vinson McConnel. He graduated from Caldwell High School in 1926, 
and attended the College of Idaho prior to going to Seattle in 1929. He 
married Gratia E. Altzier, also an Idaho native, on January 16, 1932, at 
Seattle.

Harry's introduction to a professional career in communications began as a 
radio operator on the Surveyor, a Coast Guard ship used for charting Alaskan 
waters. After five years on the ship, he spent two years as a Signal Corps 
radio operator in Ketchican, Alaska. By 1937, he found the budding field of 
airway communications callenging. The he was launched on a long and rewarding 
career as a contributing electronic engineer in the development of aeronautics 
and the current Federal Aviation Administration.

For local interest, it was a result of his recommendation that the FAA 
selected West Mountain near Cascade for its radar station to improve safety 
through the northern mountains. He served on four college advisory boards for 
electronic training while in Los Angeles.

Harry retired from government service after 33 years, the last ten of which 
were in the FAA's western regional office in Los Angeles as manager of the 
manpower and training branch. He and Gratia retired to Idaho, where they spent 
their summers. Their winters were spent in California. After buying a farm in 
Canyon County, he began a semi-retirement job in real estate.

He was a 50-year member of Mt. Moriah Lodge #38, AF & AM; a York Rite Mason; a 
member of Franklin Community Church in Canyon County; and a member of the 
United Methodist Church in Sun City, Calif.

Survivors include his wife, Gratia; a daughter and her husband of Issaquah, 
Wash.; a sister, Ardis M. Snyder of Boise; and a niece of Bellevue, Wash.

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