| John Edwin Fogelgren |
John E. Fogelgren, aeronautical engineer
Published: May 31
John E. Fogelgren, who co-founded the American Research and
Manufacturing Corp., a Montgomery County engineering firm that specialized in
defense contracts, died May 2 of cancer at the Leisure World retirement
community in Silver Spring. He was 88.
Mr. Fogelgren helped start ARMCO in 1956 and worked on projects —
including research on plastics, aerodynamics and electronics — for the Air
Force, Army and Marine Corps. The company was acquired by SL Industries in
the early 1960s, and Mr. Fogelgren retired as president of the subsidiary in 1972.
Mr. Fogelgren and his wife then settled in Naples, Fla. They owned a travel
service and hosted a cable TV show about travel. They returned to the
Washington area in the late 1980s and settled in Leisure World about five years
ago.
John Edwin Fogelgren was a native Washingtonian and a graduate of
Roosevelt High School and Montgomery College.
During World War II, he served briefly in the Army and worked as an
aeronautical engineer for Fairchild Aircraft Corp. in Hagerstown.
He played the ukulele throughout his life and invented many tools and
gadgets, including a nonlethal handgun he called the Selector. In recent decades,
he had pursued a writing career, producing articles for travel publications and
Washingtonian magazine. He wrote a self-published novel in 2002.
His wife of 67 years, Marian Bonavita Fogelgren, died in 2009. Survivors
include three children, Robert Fogelgren of Arlington, Vt., and David Fogelgren
and Janice Myers, both of Leesburg; a brother, Earl Fogelgren of Adamstown;
six grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.
— Emma Brown
Published: May 31
John E. Fogelgren, who co-founded the American Research and
Manufacturing Corp., a Montgomery County engineering firm that specialized in
defense contracts, died May 2 of cancer at the Leisure World retirement
community in Silver Spring. He was 88.
Mr. Fogelgren helped start ARMCO in 1956 and worked on projects —
including research on plastics, aerodynamics and electronics — for the Air
Force, Army and Marine Corps. The company was acquired by SL Industries in
the early 1960s, and Mr. Fogelgren retired as president of the subsidiary in 1972.
Mr. Fogelgren and his wife then settled in Naples, Fla. They owned a travel
service and hosted a cable TV show about travel. They returned to the
Washington area in the late 1980s and settled in Leisure World about five years
ago.
John Edwin Fogelgren was a native Washingtonian and a graduate of
Roosevelt High School and Montgomery College.
During World War II, he served briefly in the Army and worked as an
aeronautical engineer for Fairchild Aircraft Corp. in Hagerstown.
He played the ukulele throughout his life and invented many tools and
gadgets, including a nonlethal handgun he called the Selector. In recent decades,
he had pursued a writing career, producing articles for travel publications and
Washingtonian magazine. He wrote a self-published novel in 2002.
His wife of 67 years, Marian Bonavita Fogelgren, died in 2009. Survivors
include three children, Robert Fogelgren of Arlington, Vt., and David Fogelgren
and Janice Myers, both of Leesburg; a brother, Earl Fogelgren of Adamstown;
six grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.
— Emma Brown