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Posted 2017-08-03 1:33 PM (#84594)

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JENNERJOHN, Frederick Albert, 76, died August 1, 2017 at the Hospice & Community Care Center in Mt. Joy, PA. Fred was the husband of Marilyn Rinker Jennerjohn, who survives him. They had been married for thirty-one years. Fred was born at St. Luke's Hospital in Milwaukee, WI, the only child of the late Frederick J. and Bridget (nee Felton) Jennerjohn. His education started at St. Frederick's Elementary School in Cudahy, WI, but was cut short when his father decided to become a farmer. The family bought a small dairy farm a few miles west of Watertown, WI, where he attended a one-room school house with no running water and one teacher for eight grades. The farm house the family lived in was similarly blessed with no indoor plumbing. After about two years of farming, the family moved back to Cudahy, WI, a southern suburb of Milwaukee, on the western shore of Lake Michigan. He graduated from St. Frederick's Catholic Elementary School in 1955 and Cudahy High School in 1959. Fred attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison on a Navy ROTC scholarship and graduated in 1964 with B.S. degrees in Metallurgical Engineering and Naval Science. While in college, Fred was elected to Scabbard & Blade, a national ROTC honorary fraternity. He took numerous graduate business school courses at Penn State University. He was commissioned an Ensign in the regular United States Navy upon graduation from college and was personally interviewed by Admiral Hyman Rickover, father of the nuclear Navy, for the Navy nuclear power program. Despite the fact that Rickover threw him out of the office during the interview for not answering questions to the Admiral's satisfaction, he was accepted into the program. While in the Navy, he attended Nuclear Power School at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, CA, the Naval Reactor Facility (A1W prototype) near Idaho Falls, ID, Officer's Submarine School in Groton, CT, and Polaris Missile School in Dam Neck, VA. He served in both diesel electric and nuclear powered submarines, operating primarily out of Charleston, SC. He received his Gold Dolphins while serving on USS Chivo (SS-341). His last Navy assignment was as Weapons Officer on the Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarine USS Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635). After being honorably discharged from the Navy as a Lieutenant in the summer of 1969, Fred joined the Reactor Components Department of the Hydro-Turbine Division of Allis-Chalmers in York (which soon became the Nuclear Components Division of Allis-Chalmers) as a Project Engineer and later became Supervisor of Proposals. He then worked for the Water Reactors Division of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Monroeville, PA, from 1972 to 1973 and rejoined the A-C Nuclear Components Division as a Project Manager. In 1980, he accepted a Project Manager position with the A-C Hydro-Turbine Division, also in York. One of his many projects was the design, supply and installation of the hydraulic turbines for the Safe Harbor Expansion Project on the Susquehanna River in the mid-1980s. In the late 1980s, after the A-C Hydro-Turbine Division was sold to Voith, he joined Precision Components Corporation (formerly the A-C Nuclear Components Division) where he served in several marketing and project management positions and led the company's efforts to become a major international supplier of special storage and shipping containers for spent nuclear fuel. He retired from PCC in June 1997. Early in his retirement, Fred did occasional consulting jobs and divided his time between homes in Wisconsin and York. He was an ardent fan and supporter of the University of Wisconsin football and basketball programs and was very much involved in family genealogy. He was arguably the most knowledgeable person in the United States about the Jennerjohn family name, including several spelling variations of the name found in this country. Fred was a member of the Naval Submarine League, Sam Rayburn Association, Milwaukee County Genealogical Society, University of Wisconsin Naval ROTC Alumni Association, and the University of Wisconsin Union. He enjoyed listening to live and recorded jazz and baroque classical music and was particularly fond of classic straight-ahead jazz and contemporary big band jazz in the big, brassy style of the late, great Stan Kenton. Fred never heard a trombone solo (with or without mordents) or a harpsichord continuo that he didn't like. In addition to his wife, Fred is survived by two daughters, Catherine Jean Wolf (Bob) and Susan Beth Jennerjohn of York; the mother of his daughters, Carolyn Jennerjohn of York; a stepson, D. Gregory Witmer (Cathy) of Mechanicsburg; a stepdaughter, Stephanie Rinker Witmer (Shawn Jacobs) of Lancaster; and grandchildren, Carly Julia Wolf and Ryan Andrew Wolf of York. He is also survived by a brother-like cousin, Thomas A. Felton of St. Charles, MO; a great high school friend, Peter Crapitto (aka St. Peter) of Greendale, WI; a fellow Wisconsin Badger, David Stockland (aka Cockroach) of Sun Prairie, WI; and other dear relatives and friends. Fred enjoyed smelling a gin-soaked tissue, recalling all the very dry martinis he had with those he loved and those who loved him. No funeral service will be held because Fred always felt that those who really knew him could remember him in their own way and time rather than wasting time going to his funeral. After cremation, Fred's remains will be interred at Holy Sepulcher Cemetery in Cudahy, WI, at the convenience of the family. Memorial contributions in Fred's name to the University of Wisconsin Foundation at US Bank Lockbox, Box 78236, Milwaukee, WI 53278-0236, or to a worthy charity of the donor's choice would be appreciated. Arrangements by the Etzweiler Funeral Homes and Cremation Service, 1111 E. Market St., York. www.etzweilerfuneralhome.com

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