ST. TAMMANY PARISH, LA. 

Obituary for: CAMBIAS, SEYMOUR, JR.

Submitted by: Louis Lavedan. 

Source: E.J. Fielding Funeral Home, Covington, La.

Died Wednesday, February 9, 2011

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CAMBIAS, SEYMOUR, JR.
(October 23, 1923 - February 9, 2011)

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Seymour Cambias, Jr., a native of New Orleans and resident of Tchefuncta Club 
Estates in Covington, LA, passed away February 9, 2011 at the age of 87. He was 
the son of the late Seymour Cambias, Sr. and Margaret Bartholomew Cambias.

Mr. Cambias graduated in Engineering from Tulane University. He was a U S Navy 
Veteran, serving as an Officer in both WWII and the Korean War (as Chief 
Engineer of the USS Hunt). He was Head of the Electrical Engineering Department 
of New Orleans Public Service and Vice President of ITE Imperial Corporation and 
Gould-Brown Bouveri of Springhouse, PA from 1973 until he retired to Covington 
in 1985.

Mr. Cambias was a member of Eta Kappa Nu, a Fellow and Chartered Member of the 
British Institution of Electrical Engineers and served as Expert Advisor for 
CIGRE. He was Chairman of Edison Electrical Institute Power Plant Design, served 
as Vice President and Board Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic 
Engineers (IEEE), and a Life Member of the Louisiana Engineering Society. He was 
an author of numerous articles in Naval and Engineering publications and Four 
IEEE Transactions Papers. He served as District Vice President for the Boy 
Scouts of America, President of the PTA, and Elder of the Madisonville 
Presbyterian Church.

Mr. Cambias is survived by his wife of 65 years, Myrl Lenfant Cambias, and his 
four children, Cynthia Furnish, Richard Cambias, Barbara Clark, and Jacqueline 
Peer, five grandchildren, William Furnish, Kristin Minutti, Heather Norman, 
Lindsay Clark, Jillian Clark, and five great-grandchildren, Samantha, Veronica, 
Calvin Furnish and Nicholas and Daniel Minutti.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend the Funeral Service on Saturday, 
February 12, 2011 at 10am at the Madisonville Presbyterian Church, 701 Pine St., 
Madisonville, LA, with Visitation at 9:00 am. Interment will follow in Cypress 
Grove Cemetery in New Orleans.

Donations may be made to Madisonville Presbyterian Church.

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