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2009
Joseph A. Genovese, 86, a patent lawyer and senior vice president for Control Data Corp., died June 22 at Riderwood Village in Silver Spring of
complications from a broken hip caused by a fall.
Mr. Genovese started working as general counsel for Rabinow Engineering in 1960. Four years later, it was acquired by Control Data, a major mainframe
computer firm, from which he retired in 1989.
Joseph Anthony Genovese, who was born in Baltimore and raised in Washington, was a 1940 graduate of Gonzaga High School. He received a bachelor's
degree in aeronautical engineering in 1944 and a law degree in 1951, both from Catholic University. He served in the Army Air Forces during World War II.
Before law school, he was an engineer for a mechanical engineering firm and a patent examiner with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. After receiving
his legal degree, he worked for what is now Jacobson Holman, a law firm in Washington, and was general counsel in the electronics division of ACF
Industries. In the early 1950s, he was a patent lawyer with the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics.
He was a founding member of St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church in Hyattsville, where he had resided since 1957.
A daughter, Mary Hutcheson, died in 2005.
Survivors include his wife of 59 years, Emmy Lou "Skippy" Bare Genovese of Hyattsville; four children, Vicky a'Becket of Millersville, Michael Genovese
of Lovettsville, Ann Genovese of Ocean City and Tony Genovese of Lothian; seven grandsons; and one great-grandson.
-- Lauren Wiseman
Joseph A. Genovese, 86, a patent lawyer and senior vice president for Control Data Corp., died June 22 at Riderwood Village in Silver Spring of
complications from a broken hip caused by a fall.
Mr. Genovese started working as general counsel for Rabinow Engineering in 1960. Four years later, it was acquired by Control Data, a major mainframe
computer firm, from which he retired in 1989.
Joseph Anthony Genovese, who was born in Baltimore and raised in Washington, was a 1940 graduate of Gonzaga High School. He received a bachelor's
degree in aeronautical engineering in 1944 and a law degree in 1951, both from Catholic University. He served in the Army Air Forces during World War II.
Before law school, he was an engineer for a mechanical engineering firm and a patent examiner with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. After receiving
his legal degree, he worked for what is now Jacobson Holman, a law firm in Washington, and was general counsel in the electronics division of ACF
Industries. In the early 1950s, he was a patent lawyer with the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics.
He was a founding member of St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church in Hyattsville, where he had resided since 1957.
A daughter, Mary Hutcheson, died in 2005.
Survivors include his wife of 59 years, Emmy Lou "Skippy" Bare Genovese of Hyattsville; four children, Vicky a'Becket of Millersville, Michael Genovese
of Lovettsville, Ann Genovese of Ocean City and Tony Genovese of Lothian; seven grandsons; and one great-grandson.
-- Lauren Wiseman