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Benjamin Johnson Melton Jr
6 Dec 1920 – 29 Apr 2017
| Birth | 6 Dec 1920 |
| Death | 29 Apr 2017 |
| Cemetery | Sunset Memorial Gardens Richland , Benton County , Washington , USA |
| Added by | Sharon Lippincott on 01 Jun 2021 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/228061975 |
Gravesite details
Ashes in a double niche in the Sunset Memorial Gardens columbarium.
Bio
Benjamin Johnson Melton, Jr. and his family moved to Clayton, NM at an early age and he graduated from Clayton High School. He attended college and New Mexico College of A&M where he met his future wife, Marjorie Dinsmore, whom he married in 1942. Ben dropped out of college to join the Air Force at the start of WWII. He retired from the Air Force Reserves as a Lt. Colonel. After the war, Ben earned a master's degree in chemical engineering at the University of New Mexico. In 1951, he joined the research staff of the Los Alamos Scientific where he was involved in reactor research until 1967 when he moved to Richland, Washington and joined the staff of the AEC's Hanford Operation. In 1976 he spent a year in Seattle in the newly formed office of the Federal Energy Administration, and returned to Richland with what was now the Department of Energy. He retired in 1985 and moved to Gig Harbor, Washington. Ten years later he moved back to Richland, where he lived for the rest of his life. Ben was well known for his empowering management style, his sense of humor and his legendary ability to make any story a tall tale. He was a jack-of-all-trades and a master of many. He had a lifelong interest in photography and an extensive camera collection. After his retirement, he added computer graphics and digital photography to the mix. Aside from that, he knew how to make or fix nearly anything and was a conservationist all his life. He and Marjorie had three children, Sharon Lippincott, Robin Klein, and Ronald Melton, and fifteen grandchildren. More bio information here: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Melton-2188.
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