Lawrence Raymond Arseth

Arseth, Lawrence Raymond
Lawrence Raymond Arseth born on January 6, 1932 near Princeton, MN passed away on the evening of December 11, 2010. He Married Carol Lee Cramer in January 1954 and they had three children; Robert Michael , Suzann, and Colleen. After graduating from Princeton High School in 1950, Larry went on to graduate from the University of Minnesota with honors in 1954. He was sent to Korea in 1955, where he was a platoon leader in Battery D, 50th AAA Battalion before being sent to advise a Korean AAA unit just being formed. In 1959, Lawrence answered an ad for programmer trainees in California which put him on the ground floor of the computer industry. He trained on the IBM 709 Computer working on SAGE, he helped the RAND corporation computerize flight plans, and he wrote assembler programs for new computers for Computer Sciences. He left Computer Sciences and joined Programatics and was transferred back to Minnesota in 1966 where he worked for Univac, Control Data, and finally, West Publishing Company where he coordinated the development of a system to publish American case law on computers. He retired in 1997 and moved to Arizona permanently in 2001 where he volunteered for the Sun City Sheriffs Posse, he served on several committees and was an ordained Elder for the First Presbyterian Church of Sun City, and was active with the Sol Byer Lodge 6-134 of Sons of Norway including serving as president of that lodge in 2004 and 2005. He is survived by his wife, Carol; his son Bob, his daughter-in-law Denise, and their two sons Joey and Marco; his daughter Suzann, and his son-in-law Ken Davis; his daughter Colleen; and his two sisters Betty Peetz, and Elaine Anderson. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to be made to First Presbyterian Church of Sun City, 12225 N. 103rd Ave. Sun City, AZ 85351. Menke Funeral Home handled arrangements.