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Herman A. “Art” Becker, 69

Herman A. “Art” Becker, 69 of Missouri City, Texas, died July 27, 2006. A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 1, at St. Martin’s Lutheran Church in Sugar Land, Texas. Interment will be in the family plot in Nebraska.

Herman Arthur “Art” Becker was born April 2, 1937, in Norfolk to Henry Frederick and Marie Kristine (Holvik) Becker. He was baptized at the South Branch Rural Lutheran Church in Nebraska on May 9, 1937. He was raised on the family farm and attended rural schools. In 1955, he graduated from Albion High School, and then attended Wayne State College for two years earning a pre-engineering certificate. It was there he gained the nickname, “Art”.

He served stateside in the U. S. Army from 1959 to 1961. In 1965, he graduated from the University of Nebraska with a degree in electrical engineering, and was then employed by the Natural Gas Pipeline of America in Nebraska.

On June 24, 1961, he married Norma Lea Love in Blair. The couple moved to Houston, Texas, in 1966, where he worked for Dresser Controls Inc., later acquired by TRW. He later worked for Hydril Control Systems, B. J. Software Systems (a Thermal Instruments Company), and retired in April 2002 from Datec Control Systems, where he had been the senior marketing/sales manager.

His hobbies were fishing, boating, camping, golfing, woodworking and reading. He received a second-class radio-telephone operator’s license in 1965, and a private pilot’s license in 1970.

He was a past member of the IEEE; served as community officer in local civic associations and company management clubs. He had been a member of St. Martin’s Lutheran Church in Sugar Land since 1973.

He will be remembered as a private person with a gentle personality, kind heart, and constant strength.

He is survived by his wife, Norma; daughter and son-in-law, Jana Sue and Scott Yeager of Sugar Land; son and daughter-in-law, Jason Becker and Sun Young of Herndon, Va.; four grandchildren; a brother, George Becker of Albion; and two sisters and a brother-in-law, Janice Cook of Springfield and Marie and Marion Shafer of Norfolk.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a brother, Merlin; sister-in-law, Marlene Becker; nephew, Dan Cook, and niece, Mary Becker.

Memorials are suggested to St. Martin’s Lutheran Church, 1123 Burney Road, Sugar Land, TX 77478; MD Anderson Hospital, The University of Texas Medical Cancer Center, PO Box 4486, Houston, TX 77210-4486; or the Leukemia Research Foundation, 2700 Patriot Blvd. Suite 100, Glenview, IL 60026-8021

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~