Eckart Lemberg

1928 - 2018

Long-time resident, Eckart Lemberg, of Boulder, Colorado, passed away very peacefully in his home on January 2nd, 2018, of natural causes in old age. He lived a very full and active life in his 89 years. He was at home with his family who had all been faithful caregivers of him for the last five years. Eckart was born in Breslau, Silesia, Germany (present-day, Wroclaw, Poland) on July 8th, 1928 to Walter and Erica Lemberg. They immigrated to Sydney, Australia in March 1939 during the Holocaust. Eckart graduated from North Sydney Boy's High School, and was on the Swim Team while there. He then attended Sydney University and graduated in 1950, with a degree in Aeronautical Engineering. He married his wife, Wendy Marion (Hembrow) on March 6th, 1954. They honeymooned in Europe driving an old vintage London taxi cab before moving to England where their oldest son, Greg, was eventually born, then to Canada, and finally to the United States where a daughter, Catherine, and two more sons, Bruce and Christopher, were born. From 1954-1998, Eckart was a senior test, design, or research engineer in the Aerospace Industry in four continents with the majority of that time in Colorado at Ball Brothers and Lockheed Martin. He loved designing spacecraft, robotics, and optical flight systems. In his early years, he designed two experiments for NASA's Skylab, the first space station, and the Mars Microbe Detector. He had a wide variety of interests and hobbies, among which, was his running, which started with the early Cancer Jog-a-thons and Bolder Boulders, progressed to the Colorado Mountain Race Circuit, and ended with running the Mt. Everest Marathon, three times, as the oldest runner to have done so. Eckart is survived by Wendy Houser, the children's mother, and their three sons: Gregory and Bruce both in Boulder, Colorado; Christopher of Lakewood, Colorado, and a daughter, Catherine Lemberg of Loveland; grandson, Sean of Boulder; and granddaughter Sarah of Denver. He is also survived by nephews, cousins and a niece in Australia and Europe. Those who preceded him in death were his parents, Walter and Erica; his uncle and aunt, Rudi and Hannah; his sister, Helga Wilsmore; younger brother, Gert and a baby brother, Hartmond, all of Sydney, Australia. A Memorial Service will be held Friday, February 16th, 2018 at 10 am at Flatiron's Community Church to celebrate his life. The address is: 355 W. South Boulder Road in Lafayette, Colorado. Donations can be made to the American Himalayan Foundation. A longer obituary can be read at GreenwoodMyersFuneral.com.