Champaign County OhArchives Obituaries.....Steinberger, Charles Aden May 31, 2007
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The Urbana Daily News-abstract
Charles Aden Steinberger, 74, born Dec. 10, 1932, died May 31, 2007, at the 
Ohio Masonic Home in Springfield, Ohio. The youngest child born to Charles C. 
and Ethelyn Findlay Steinberger, he was preceded in death by his parents, his 
brother, John, and his sister, Nora. He is survived by his four children and 
four grandchildren:  He is also survived by his former wife. He was a 1951 
graduate of Salem High School and a member of the First Presbyterian Church of 
Urbana. He also was a Shriner and a Mason.

Known to some as Charlie and to others as Aden, he learned to read while still 
a toddler, by reading Mail Pouch Tobacco signs on barns and roadside Burma 
Shave signs. He had an insatiable curiosity about the world around him and 
exemplified Mark Twain's suggestion that a man's education should never stand 
in the way of his learning. He so disliked school as a child that, in some 
years, he was absent nearly as often as he was present. At the same time, his 
scores on standardized assessment tests were among the highest in Ohio. With 
no more than a high school diploma, he went on to become a self-educated 
electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and optical engineer, working in 
those capacities for Grimes Manufacturing Co. of Urbana, Hobart Corp. of Troy, 
and General Motors in Dayton. Near the end of his career, he took and passed 
the Ohio test for certification as a professional engineer.

At home, he was an inveterate tinkerer, inventor, builder, experimenter, and 
explorer of the gifts of nature. His basement became a treasure trove of parts 
and papers, a warehouse for any object he deemed of conceivable use toward 
completion of any of his countless ongoing projects. He was also an avid 
amateur radio operator, known to fellow "hams," locally and around the United 
States, as W8LWX. He was especially fond of animals of all kinds, a loyalist 
to both factions in the centuries-old struggle between cats and birds.

Masonic services will be at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 3, 2007, at the Ohio 
Masonic Home Chapel. Funeral services will be conducted on Monday, June 4, 
2007, at 10:30 a.m. in the First Presbyterian Church, Urbana with Rev. Kevin 
Horrigan officiating. Friends and family may call one hour prior to the 
services at the church. Burial to follow in Concord Cemetery

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