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Norman Radow Obituary

Published by Joseph W. Bliley Funeral Home from Mar. 17 to Mar. 19, 2017.

RADOW, Norman, of Richmond, age 89, passed away on March 15, 2017, after a 17-year bout with CLL leukemia. He is survived by his beloved wife, Marilyn, of 63 years; and his two married daughters, Judy (Bob Richmon) here in Henrico, Cheryl (Rod McGinniss) from Potomac, Maryland; and by his two grandchildren, Lauren McGinniss Gleason (Mark) and Greg McGinniss; a great-grandchild, Ella Rose Gleason; and by his sister, Beatrice Eisenberg of Delray Beach, Florida. Norman was born in Irvington, New Jersey. Upon graduating high school in 1944, he enlisted in the Army, where he qualified for the Army Specialized Training Reserve Program (ASTRP) at the University of Syracuse. After two semesters of basic engineering studies, he was transferred to active service and assigned overseas to a mobile petroleum laboratory station in post war Germany. Upon discharge, he returned to Syracuse and acquired B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering. In 1952, he joined the Textile Fibers Department of the DuPont Company in Wilmington, Delaware and in 1962 he transferred to the DuPont Fibers Plant in south Richmond as a Senior Research Engineer. There he held technical and supervisory positions initially in the production of industrial nylon and afterwards within the Research and Plant Technical organizations involved in the commercialization of Kevlar*. He retired officially in 1984 but returned on a contractual basis for another year...

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Ret Officer RB Wade

March 19, 2017

In 1976 my partner and I went to the Richmond Police Academy where we received brand new Kevlar vests. This was on a Friday. On Monday, he was shot in the heart by one of three burglars. The Kevlar vest stopped the bullet. His life was saved. Thanks, Mr. Radow, your research made a LIFE time difference. God speed! Officer RB Wade, Richmond Police retired.