Alex joined the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1934 and was stationed a Camp Icicle in Leavenworth, Washington during the mid-1930s. There he continued boxing and became the Northwest region CCC heavyweight champion for three consecutive years. Alex also was the editor of the camp newsletter. He subsequently entered the University of Idaho on a full boxing scholarship, and became the Northwest region collegiate heavyweight boxing champion. After receiving his bachelors degree in engineering in 1941, he continued his education at the University of Idaho and received a masters degree in physics in 1942 , where he designed an X-ray machine for his master's thesis.
Following graduation Alex moved back to Michigan where he worked as an engineer at U.S. Rubber in Detroit, and then for Bohm Aluminum. He returned to Albion at the end of 1947 where he secured an engineering position at the Albion Malleable Iron Company. He moved to Spokane, Washington in June, 1949, and subsequently secured a job as an engineer for Boeing Aircraft in Seattle, Washington. He worked there for 32 years before his retirement in 1981. Alex was the Boeing engineer who discovered a crack in the moon rover upon his inspection at Cape Canaveral, which had to be repaired before launch.
Alex married Loretta Smith on June 8, 1940 in Spokane, Washington. She passed away on August 28, 2007. Surviving are the couple's two sons Michael and Theodore, and four grandchildren. Burial: Cremains, May 28, 2006.
Block 35 Lot 6, Charles Marshall Smith family lot. Records show Alex Block 34, Lot 8.
Alex joined the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1934 and was stationed a Camp Icicle in Leavenworth, Washington during the mid-1930s. There he continued boxing and became the Northwest region CCC heavyweight champion for three consecutive years. Alex also was the editor of the camp newsletter. He subsequently entered the University of Idaho on a full boxing scholarship, and became the Northwest region collegiate heavyweight boxing champion. After receiving his bachelors degree in engineering in 1941, he continued his education at the University of Idaho and received a masters degree in physics in 1942 , where he designed an X-ray machine for his master's thesis.
Following graduation Alex moved back to Michigan where he worked as an engineer at U.S. Rubber in Detroit, and then for Bohm Aluminum. He returned to Albion at the end of 1947 where he secured an engineering position at the Albion Malleable Iron Company. He moved to Spokane, Washington in June, 1949, and subsequently secured a job as an engineer for Boeing Aircraft in Seattle, Washington. He worked there for 32 years before his retirement in 1981. Alex was the Boeing engineer who discovered a crack in the moon rover upon his inspection at Cape Canaveral, which had to be repaired before launch.
Alex married Loretta Smith on June 8, 1940 in Spokane, Washington. She passed away on August 28, 2007. Surviving are the couple's two sons Michael and Theodore, and four grandchildren. Burial: Cremains, May 28, 2006.
Block 35 Lot 6, Charles Marshall Smith family lot. Records show Alex Block 34, Lot 8.
Gravesite Details
Alex's cremains are temporarily interred in the grave of his father-in-law, Charles Smith, until arrangements are made to inter him in his own purchase plot.
Family Members
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John Passick Sr
1905–1973
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Joseph Bartholomew Pasic
1907–1994
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Ana Pacic
1909–1909
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Stephen Pasick Sr
1910–1992
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Leila "Lee" Pasick Chapman
1915–1997
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Walter William Pasick
1917–1946
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SGT Frank Passic Sr
1919–1974
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Infant Female Pasick
1921–1921
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Dorothy Rose Pasick Small
1923–2019
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Infant Male Pasick
1926–1926
