Paul Foster Law passed distant connected November 26, 2022, astatine his workplace successful Gonzales County, Texas with his wife, Vonnie, by his side. Paul was loved arsenic a husband, Dad, grandfather, brother, engineer, doctor, farmer, and mentor who volition beryllium missed by his household and the galore radical helium loved and served during his 91 years.
Paul was calved connected October 23, 1931, successful Georgetown, Texas, to Aubrey Beamon Law and Annie McCann Law. He grew up connected a workplace and graduated from Georgetown High School. Life was simpler successful the 1930s and 1940s, but maintaining a household workplace required hard enactment and each the Law children contributed their share. As Paul would explain, sometimes adjacent schoolhouse became 2nd precedence “when the fabric needed to get in.” Growing up connected the workplace resulted successful a beardown enactment ethic that would qualify Paul’s full life.
In the humble assemblage successful which Paul was raised, not galore children could spend to spell to college. To the delight of his household and community, Paul, ever a agleam student, received an ROTC assistance to be The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas–what we present cognize arsenic Texas A&M University. Paul joined the Corps of Cadets astatine Texas A&M and graduated successful 1952 with a Bachelor of Science grade successful Mechanical Engineering.
Following graduation, Paul was commissioned into the Army arsenic a 2nd Lieutenant. He was deployed to Greenland wherever helium served arsenic a subordinate of a communications surveillance team. Using mobile listening posts, Paul and his chap soldiers detected and monitored vigor transmissions of U.S. adversaries successful eastbound Europe and Asia, providing the locations of the adversaries’ vigor transmitters to Army Headquarters.
Following his Army service, Paul returned to Texas A&M and earned a Master’s Degree successful Civil Engineering. He followed that with a PhD successful Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas successful 1961. Paul’s engineering skills landed him astatine the General Dynamics craft institution successful Fort Worth, wherever helium served arsenic the Lead Avionics Engineer for the B-58 Hustler, America’s archetypal supersonic bomber.
In 1959, Paul joined Nancy Neill successful her hometown of Sonora, Texas. Paul and Nancy lived connected a tiny workplace successful Leon Springs wherever they enjoyed raising pigs, chickens, horses, cows, and their 3 children, David, Judith, and Jack. Paul and Nancy divorced successful 1978.
In the 1960s and aboriginal 1970s, portion surviving successful Leon Springs, Paul was a probe technologist astatine Southwest Research Institute successful San Antonio. In 1971, astatine the property of 39, helium entered aesculapian schoolhouse astatine the University of Texas Health Science Center successful San Antonio. Following graduation from aesculapian school, Paul pursued a specialty successful Anesthesiology. During his clip arsenic a doctor, Paul served connected the module of the aesculapian school, served the subject assemblage astatine the galore subject hospitals astir San Antonio, and went connected missions to Honduras with Rotary International teams to supply cleft palate and cleft articulator surgeries to those without entree oregon funds. Paul joined the Spillar Anesthesia radical and practiced, predominantly, Obstetrical Anesthesiology until helium retired from medicine successful 1989.
After leaving aesculapian practice, Paul moved to Mound City, Kansas to proceed his lifelong passionateness for farming. In 1989, Paul joined Mariko Uenishi. Paul, Mariko, and Mariko’s son, Hiroyuki, lived successful Mound City and successful Overland Park, Kansas until Paul and Mariko divorced successful 1996.
While farming successful Kansas, Paul met and became adjacent with chap farmers, Wanda and O’Neal Linson. Wanda and O’Neal had a beauteous daughter, Ella Yvonne. As a azygous antheral with a bosom for farming, it is nary astonishment that Paul would autumn for the farmer’s daughter. Paul and Yvonne were joined successful December, 1997 successful Overland Park, Kansas, and moved to Gonzales County, Texas, wherever they enjoyed 25 years of marriage, surviving connected a workplace connected the banks of the Guadalupe River. Paul would bask visits from household and friends and enjoyed taking his grandsons, Carter, Tanner, and Cooper, canoeing successful the stream and teaching them to thrust tractors. A antheral of elemental pleasures, Paul enjoyed walking among his cattle, watching the cervid successful the fields, and sitting with Vonnie, enjoying a chill portion successful the shadiness connected a lukewarm Texas evening.
In summation to raising cattle, hay, and pecans, Paul and Vonnie served their assemblage arsenic mentors astatine St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church successful Seguin. During their clip of work arsenic mentors, Paul was recognized by the County Court for his services to the younker of Gonzales County and for helping crook lives astir successful their community.
Paul inspired galore during his life. He possessed a wisdom, grace, and wit that enactment radical astatine easiness and enabled him to consciousness comfy talking to folks from each walks of life. His friends included academics, farmers, laborers, and overlooked troubled youth. Paul didn’t see anyone either unapproachable oregon not worthy his time. The operation of a gentle and humble manner, a down-to-earth demeanor, and awesome intellect made Paul a genuinely singular person.
Paul was preceded successful decease by his parents, his lad David Paul Law, his member Aubrey Law and his woman Verta Lee, his member Wayne Law, his sister Dorothy Ickes Corbett, his nephew Charles Ray Ickes, his niece Carolyn Earwood, and his niece Nancy Harville. Paul is survived by his woman Ella Yvonne Law, his girl Judith Neill Law, his lad Jack Neill Law (Commander, U.S. Navy, retired) and his woman Rebecca, his stepdaughter Terra Ramsey and her hubby Chris, his stepson Nathan Hagman, his grandchildren Paul Carter Law and his woman Abigail, Tanner David Law, and Cooper Thomas Law, his sister-in-law Doris Law, his sister Margie Nell Myers and her hubby Al, his member Wilburn Law and his woman Natasha, his nieces Charlotte Franklin and her hubby John, Margie Ann Nunn, Barbara Myers, Jean Ickes, Elizabeth Davis, and Kathy Law, and his nephews Ken Myers and his woman Connie, Bill Ickes and his woman Wanda, Greg Law and his woman Kim, Jeff Law and his woman Yi Uncha, and Michael Wayne Law.
A memorial work to grant Paul volition beryllium held connected Saturday, December 10, 2022 astatine 11:00 americium astatine First Baptist Church successful Seguin, TX.
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