- Date Of Birth: 1927
- Date Of Death: 2020
- State: Florida
Harmon D. Strieter passed away on January 6. Born in Unionville, Michigan in August of 1927, he was the 9th of 11 children.
Harmon worked in the Lansing, Michigan area as an Audio Engineer and moved to Cocoa Beach, Florida in 1958 to work as a Missile Guidance Engineer with General Electric and was the Guidance Engineer on the Mercury and Gemini manned spaced programs. After 20 years, the contract was terminated and in 1979, he returned to sea as a Radio Electronics Officer in the Merchant Marines. He retired in 2002 at the age of 75 after 23 years sailing on various vessels.
He was a good neighbor and mowed 3 to 4 lawns until he gave it up at 91 ½. He liked to stay busy picking up yards or blowing off driveways in the neighborhood and was still pruning and climbing trees at 89 much to the dismay of his kids. He was big help to many of his neighbors after the hurricanes.
He was predeceased by his wife of 60 yrs Mildred M Strieter who passed away in January 2017. He leaves a daughter Judith K Luck, a son Jack E Strieter and grandchildren, Allen Luck, David Luck, Kayla Strieter and Ryan Strieter.
