NASA Memorials: Remembering the life, death and legacy of Donald Baals
NEWPORT NEWS - Donald D. Baals, a resident of Warwick Forest, passed away June 16, 2013. He will be remembered as a loving husband, father, grandfather and friend, as well as a man known for his kind-heartedness and gentlemanly ways throughout his long life. Don was born Oct. 31, 1916, in Fort Wayne, Ind., and grew up there as son of the city's mayor. His parents were Minnie Witte and Harry William Baals. He attended Purdue University, where, in 1939, he received a master's degree in...