Posted by Terry Powers on December 3, 2022:

Dickinson, Ben Wade Oakes - died at the age of 85, in November 2011 at his home in San Francisco. Wade was born in Hickory Township PA, to Ben Wade Orr Dickinson, Jr., and Gladys Grace Dickinson. He graduated from Oak Ridge School of Reactor Technology where he worked as a nuclear physicist and met his future wife, Elanor Creekmore, at a Knoxville dance. Elanor is a UT Knoxville graduate from the class of 1952. He is survived by his wife, Elanor; his brother and business partner of 50 years, Wayne; his three children: Mark, Kathy, and Peter; and six grandchildren: Jessica and Paul, Corey and Forrest, Lynda and Daniel. Wade was a West Point graduate and Technical Advisor on Atomic Energy to the US Congress. He Taught Engineering entrepreneurship for 19 at the University of California at Berkley, and was a lay leader at St Mary the Virgin Episcopal Church. Wade's first patent was granted in 1965 and his 39th in 2011. His funeral was on 4 December 2011, in San Francisco. The Knoxville News-Sentinel (Knoxville, Tennessee) Sat, Jan 14, 2012 Page 10

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