DAVID SZABO

1975 - 2021

SZABO DAVID AUGUST SZABO May 20, 1975 - November 24, 2021 David August Szabo departed this life peacefully and unexpectedly in his sleep Wednesday, November 24, 2021. David was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana May 20, 1975. He was 46 when he passed away. David was the second of four brothers who were born within a five year span. From the age of six months, David was raised in the Washington, DC area. David first lived in Bethesda, Maryland, then from age six until he departed for college, he was raised in Potomac, Maryland. David graduated from Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland, in 1993. At Whitman, he lettered in both baseball and soccer. During his senior year, his Whitman soccer team participated in the state championship game. David graduated cum laude in Civil Engineering in 1997 from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. There, David was in several honor societies, was on the Dean's List and was a member of the Kappa Sigma social fraternity. He participated in club soccer at NC State and also coached a youth soccer team during his first years in college. After college, David worked for Steel Fab, Inc. for two years in Charlotte, North Carolina as a project engineer. He then left the company and traveled extensively in Europe for six months. Returning to the United States, he relocated to San Diego, which he had identified as the best place to live in the nation. Except for less than one year that he later spent working for a development company in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC, he never left San Diego. For several years, two of his brothers lived with him in San Diego. In San Diego, David worked in the construction industry where, over the next two decades, he was a project manager for several major construction companies. Most of his career was spent building structures for educational institutions and for the United States Navy. By all accounts, David was outstanding in his profession. David had a kind and generous spirit, a cheerful and optimistic personality and a wonderful sense of humor. He loved to travel the world and loved the beauty of nature. He was a bright light in the lives of everyone who knew him. David will be deeply missed by his family and his many friends. David is survived by his parents, Ann Coulter Szabo and Robert Goss Szabo, of Nellysford, Virginia; his brother, Robert Coulter Szabo, and Marie Jarvis Szabo, their son, Robert Coulter Szabo, Jr. and daughter, Alina Marin Szabo, all of Fort Mill, South Carolina; his brother, Bryan Patrick Szabo, of Washington, DC and his son, Wyatt Coulter Szabo, of Church Road, Virginia; and his brother, James Michael Szabo, and Elizabeth Hanley Szabo, their son, Owen Hanley Szabo, and daughter, Lyla Ann Szabo, all of Bend, Oregon. David was predeceased by his maternal grandparents, William Wallace Coulter, Jr., MD and Martha Harper Coulter, and his paternal grandparents, August John Szabo, and Ruth Goss Szabo, all of Lafayette, Louisiana. The family is establishing a scholarship fund in David's memory in the Department of Civil, Construction and Environment Engineering of North Carolina State University. Contributions to the scholarship fund may be made in the name of David August Szabo to the North Carolina State Engineering Foundation, Inc. Private services will be held for David today in San Diego. A celebration of David's life will be occur online in early January.