Lucian Jay Endicott Jr.

Lucian Jr. aka "Jerry" to his immediate family, was born in Atlanta, Georgia, April 25, 1934. The only child of Lucian Jay Endicott and Mary Carter Endicott he spent his early years on a small farm outside of Macon, Georgia. Lucian graduated from Murphy High School, Atlanta, Georgia, in May 1950 and attended Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, the Atlanta Division of the University of Georgia, Atlanta Georgia and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. Earning a B. A. in Classics from Emory University in August 1954 followed by two years in the U. S. Army, CONARC Fort Bragg. Entering the inactive reserve in September 1957 as a Corporal. In the fall of 1957 he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to attend the University of Melbourne in Australia where he received a B. Ed. First in Class, First Class Honors, in February 1960. While in Australia he acted in the Hollywood film, On the Beach. Lucian married Elizabeth Williamson of Atlanta, Georgia, February 2, 1958, in the Chapel of the Emory University School of Theology (now a library)—their first son, Marcus Lucian Endicott was born in Melbourne, Australia. On their return from Australia, Lucian joined the IBM Corporation in June 1960 as a Junior Mathematician. While working for IBM, they had two more sons: Lincoln Endicott, born in Endicott, New York, and Hamlin Endicott, born in Wilmington, Delaware. Lucian worked in eight different locations for IBM in both the United States and Europe: Endicott, New York, Wilmington, Delaware, Poughkeepsie, New York, Kingston, New York, Research Park Triangle, North Carolina, Zurich, Switzerland, Rochester, Minnesota and Boca Raton, Florida. He held numerous technical and managerial job designations including Senior Engineer, Senior Planner, and Senior Programmer. His wife died April 25, 1987, and he took early retirement from IBM shortly thereafter (June 30, 1987). He taught Computer Science from August 1987 to June 1992 at Central Texas College in Killeen, Texas, and moved to Saint Simons Island, Georgia in June 1992 to care for his father and mother. Subsequent to their deaths, in December 1994, he lived with his son's Lincoln's family in Colorado Springs, Colorado and Fayetteville, North Carolina. "Sanders of the River" was an atheist by temperament, an agnostic by intellect, and a High Church Christian by tradition. His credo was there is a lot we don't know, there is probably a lot more we can't know, no need to worry about what we can't know, worry little about what we can know but don't - life probably has no purpose beyond creating more life (though it is possible that the purpose of life is to create ideas) - life is more livable if one thinks life has a purpose or purposes whatever it or they may be. He was the founder, Good Shepard, Regular Buckaroo, and Exalted Grand Pentarch of the Church of the Simple Faith (TCOTSerF - the TCOTSerF credo is "a simple faith is better than Norman blood, but old money is better still", its motto is "ecrasez l'infame or whatever") and died in the odor of sanctity. He was also a member of the American Legion Post No. 5 in Colorado Springs, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. His memoir, Binding Time: Memoirs of a Programming Man, is possibly the most significant unpublished work of the 20th century. Examples of his verse can be seen on his blog, Cyrils Gleans www.cyrilsgleans.com A memorial service for the Über Goober will be held in Atlanta, GA in June or July. The family requests your memorial support of the Wounded Warrior Project or the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. Mr. Endicott is survived by three sons, two daughter-in-laws, three granddaughters and a grandson.