Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, March 16, 1990 TAG: 9003161888
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-2 EDITION: METRO
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BLACKSBURG - Charles Arvid Dana, age 82, died peacefully in his sleep on Tuesday, March 13, 1990, at Heritage Hall Health Care Center. Mr. Dana was born February 20, 1908, in Delta, Colo. He graduated with honors in 1930 in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. He was married on July 22, 1934, in Chicago, Il., to Josephine G. Smith. Mr. Dana worked for Westinghouse Electric Company, Jersey City, N.J., from 1933 to 1947. He engineered work on elevators until the beginning of World War II. He then engineered and helped install elevators on air craft carriers during World War II. In 1947, he became manager of Denver Elevator Division of Westinghouse until his retirement in 1972. He was preceded in death by a son, Kent Oliver Dana, on December 13, 1986. Survivors include his wife, Josephine G. Smith Dana; one daughter, Barbara D. Periman, Christiansburg; one son, Charles Douglas Dana, Denver, Colo.; two grandchildren, Cathleen Tuck, Roanoke; David Periman, Norfolk; also three great-grandchildren, Christopher and Michael Tuck and Mark Periman. A memorial service will be held Saturday, March 17, at 2:00 p.m. at Wheatland Hills Retirement Center on Rt. 11 (just East of Radford Shopping Plaza) with the Rev. Ben Holstein and the Rev. Gene Chafin officiating. Interment will be in Alta Mesa Memorial Park in Palo Alto, Calif., at a later date. Arrangements by Hoy-McCoy Funeral Home, Blacksburg.
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