Richard John Albers 1940 - 2009

JOHNSON, ALBERS

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 8/25/2020 at 14:00:56

Sioux City Journal
14 April 2009

SIOUX CITY -- Richard John Albers, engineer, 68, of Sioux City passed away Sunday, April 12, 2009, in Omaha following a lengthy illness with Alzheimer's disease.

Services will be 11 a.m. to noon Wednesday at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Sioux City, with a Mass to follow. The Rev. Merlin Schrad will preside over the funeral with burial to follow.

Richard was born May 16, 1940, in Sioux City, to John and Esther Albers. He graduated from Heelan High School in 1958.

He married Joan Johnson on Dec. 30, 1961. He was employed with Duvan Music as an electronics service technician from 1959 to 1962, where he serviced Motorola, Zenith and other home stereo systems. He worked as a methods engineer with Wincharger, which was owned by his father and his uncle, from 1962 to 1968. There, he manufactured air conditioner generators, universal motors and military dynamotors. He designed and built semi-automatic shaft center drilling machines and introduced polyester resins into production of universal motors.

He was employed with Zenith from 1968 to 1977 as a systems and methods engineer and a test equipment foreman and production engineer. He traveled to Chicago several times to calibrate correlation problems of all products in production. He was elected by Zenith radio of Chicago for travel to Zenith of Taiwan to direct installation of test equipment for stereo and radio production. He was employed with Texel Communication from 1977 to 1979 as a tool design engineer, Bloomington, Minn., where he designed production and fixtures and machines and Ford automotive products.

He was employed with CMI Load King from 1979 to 1982 as an industrial engineer in Elk Point, S.D. He designed fixtures for assembly of semi-trailers and oil well pump units. He provided electronic support for maintenance of solid state controls MIG welding equipment. He was an electronics technician for Moeller Electronics from 1982 to 1984. He built and serviced PA systems in business closed circuit television cameras, VCRs and nutone home stereo equipment.

He worked for Phillips Kiln Service from 1984 to 1990 as a research and design engineer. He designed and prototyped measurement equipment and grinding machines for use by road crews. He provided tech support for all aspects service. He traveled to job sites to evaluate prototype equipment. He then was employed as a engineering draftsman for Fimco Inc. from 1990 to 1999. He created all parts in three dimension "Exploded View" blueprints published in operators' instruction manuals. He was responsible for cataloging and maintaining manufacturing products and resale parts in number system. He was also responsible for cost accounted, all manufacturing items and released production orders to the plant.

He installed in his three sons, much knowledge as mechanical, technical and electrical.

Survivors include three sons, Michael Albers and Kim Roth of Sioux City, Mark and Cheryl Albers of Rochester, Minn., and Daniel Albers of Byron, Minn.; five grandchildren; and four sisters and their husbands.

He was preceded in death by his father and mother.