Melvin Goldstein (Mo), of Dallas, TX passed away on Sunday, April 5th, 2015 at Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, TX at the age of 87. He was originally from New Orleans, LA and is preceded in death by his parents, Benjamin and Rose Mintz Goldstein as well as his sister Bluma Klein of New Orleans. Survivors include his wife of 63 years, Marilyn Abrahm Goldstein, his four daughters, Fran Goldstein of New Orleans (Warren), Susan Simon of New Orleans (Barry), Paula Murphy of Coppell, TX (Richard) and Beth Thompson of Dallas, Tx (Brian), his six grandchildren (Melissa, Jamie, Tori, Garrett, Reid and Aaron) and his great granddaughter (Stella). He is also survived by numerous nieces and nephews, all card carrying members of the "Melvin Fan Club." Melvin received his BS and MS in Physics from Tulane University. He was president of the Sigma Pi Sigma physics honor society, and graduated with the Elliot Award (given to the outstanding senior graduate in physics). He taught the graduate Electronics Lab at Tulane, and a course in Optics at Xavier University in New Orleans. He was Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette, where he also performed research in Nuclear Physics. Professionally, Melvin started as Junior Engineer in the Apparatus Division of Texas Instruments, and moved on to be Senior Design Engineer in the Digital Circuit Section. He resigned in order to start TANO Corporation in New Orleans, which grew to design and manufacture automation systems for commercial and military ships. He served as President and Board Chairman of TANO until he returned to Dallas to be President of Eclectic Systems, which engaged in the design of computer hardware and software. He was a co-inventor of the programming language called MUMPS and was also the author of many computer programs and a Physics Book enitlied "Physics Foibles". At his death he was the president of Bonum Corporation in Dallas, Texas. Funeral services are pending and interment will be private.

Published in Dallas Morning News on May 12, 2015