Ernest Earl Lockhart

Family-Placed Death Notice

ERNEST EARL LOCKHART Ernest Earl Lockhart, 93, died at his home on July 26, 2006. A family ceremony in his honor was held on the Bass River near his home in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on September 10, 2006, the ninety-fourth anniversary of his birth. Earl Lockhart was born in 1912 in Boston, Massachusetts, the houngest of three children, and he grew up in a house built by his father in the Hyde Park section of Boston. His parents were Clinton Daniel Lockhart and Celeste Althea Westhaver, who both emigrated from Nova Scotia, Canada. Earl was educated in the Boston public schools, at the Chauncey Hall School, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. An excellent scholar, he earned three degrees at MIT, culminating with a PhD in 1938. Following a year of study on fellowship at the Biochemical Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, Earl served as the physiologist on Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd's United States Antarctica Expedition of 1939-1941. For this service he received a special medal authorized by the Congress of the United States. A memorable experience on the expedition was a four-month, 400 mile field trip by dog team. He was the radio operator for his four-man party. A mountain in the Fosdick Range is named for him. Upon his return to the States, Earl began a career of research and teaching at MIT in the field of food technology and nutrition. In 1955 he left MIT to join the Coffee Brewing Institute, a trade organization located in New York City, as its Research Director. He moved from there in 1965 to the position of Assistant Research Director of the Coca Cola Company in Atlanta, where he lived until his retirement from Coke in 1978. Earl was a co-founder of the International Life Sciences Institute, a worldwide Foundation that seeks to improve the well-being of the genaral public through the advancement of science. Earl retired to Cape Cod, where he and his wife Helen lived for his remaining twenty-seven years. Earl was predeceased by his parents, his sister Beatrice R. Lockhart, his brother Clinton Carl Lockhart, and a niece Janet Althea Lockhart. He is survived by his loving wife and constant companion of sixty-three years, Helen Scrufutis Lockhart; sisters-in-law, Mary G. Lockhart of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Ethel S. Koulouris of Burlington, Vermont; nephew, George G. Lockhart and wife Judy of Summerfield, North Carolina; nephew, Paul E. Koulouris of Nantucket, Massachusetts; niece, Helen D. Koulouris and her husband Edward L. Hawes of Brunswick, Maine; and by grandnieces and grandnephews, Nicholas C. Grant and his wife Molly, Anne S. Grant, Carolyn R. Koulouris, and Matthew P. Koulouris. Surviving family members wish to express their love and affection for Earl (a/k/a affectionately as both Theo and Uncle Earl). His consistent good humor and upright character endeared him to all who knew him. Condolences may be sent to PO Box 720, Summerfield, NC 27358. Memorial contributions may be made to the charity of the donor's choice.