Anthony William Pieper

PIEPER, Anthony William Suddenly, on June 17, 2004, ANTHONY WILLIAM "BILL" PIEPER of Aberdeen, MD, age 56. He was formally an Electronics Engineer with the Survivability Directorate, U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM), Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. Over a distinguished career of more that 30 years of superior performance, he served in several key program capacities within Edgewood Chemical Biological Center and the Office of the Joint Program Manager for Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Contamination Avoidance. Most notably, he served as a Developmental Engineer for the M21 Remote Sensing Chemical Agent Alarm program and Subject Matter Expert for Contractor Logistics Support for three Biological Integrated Detection Systems. He was a Level III Certified Acquisition Professional in the specialty of Systems Planning, Research, Development and Engineering and a recent employee at the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command, Army Evaluation Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. Bill also served in Korea and Saudi Arabia during the entire duration of the Desert Storm war. At the end of the war, he designed and supervised construction of "the world's largest car wash" a giant ditch in the sand, used to decontaminate Army vehicles just before loading them on ships for return to the States. He retired as Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves. He had a BS in Electronics Engineering and MS in Business Administration. He is survived by his wife Nannette L. Miller-Pieper of Aberdeen, MD; his son Anthony William "Tony" Pieper of Japan, one stepson Dennis Miller of Aberdeen; his parents Anthony W. and Betty Louise Pieper of St. Petersburg, FL; brother Jeffrey R. Pieper, his wife Andrea and their son Charlie of Tenafly, NJ. Also survived by his aunt Ruth Pieper of Stamford, CT, uncle Robert L. Brown and his wife Martha of Edison, NJ; and three step-grandchildren Stephanie Miller, James Miller, and Joel D. Miller of Aberdeen, MD. Services will be held at Oak Grove Baptist Church, Bel Air, MD on Tuesday, June 22, 2004 at 7 p.m. Friends may call at the church on Tuesday from 5-7 p.m. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Oak Grove Baptist Church, 2106 Churchville Rd., Bel Air, MD 21015 or The American Heart Associations or Alzheimers Disease Association.