Carl Yackel collection

Carl Yackel was born October 27, 1923, in Syracuse, N.Y., and died January 22, 2016, in Lake Oswego. He graduated from John Marshall High School in Rochester, N.Y., along with his wife to be, Francis "Fran" Phillips in June 1941. After graduating from high school, Yackel enrolled in the Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute in 1941 before enlisting in the Army Air Corps in December 1942. Carl and Fran were married July 15, 1944, on the U.S. Army Air Base in Harlingen, Texas. Carl served in the U.S. Air Force (Army Air Corps) in World War II as a B-24 pilot in the South Pacific. He survived an emergency bailout from 400 feet over Okinawa September 26, 1945. As the war ended, he was transferred to Clark Field in the Philippines and flew medical evacuation missions in C-47 and C-46 aircrafts until his return to the states in July of 1946. He retired as a captain in the U.S. Air Force. Yackel re-entered RAMI in September 1946 and graduated in 1947. Carl then attended Iowa State University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering in July 1950. He and Fran moved to Lake Oswego, OR in 1974. He was a registered professional engineer in Oregon, Massachusetts and New York, and worked as a consulting engineer in the paper industry until a few months before his death. He authored a book entitled "Pulp & Paper Agitation: The History, Mechanics and Process" and numerous technical papers on pulp and paper processing. Carl and Fran were married for 70 years until Fran's death May 14, 2015. They had one son, Richard, who died August 23, 2002. They are survived by three grandchildren, two nieces and a nephew, all of whom are living in Florida or Ohio.