Roger G. Knuth, 83, passed away on June 7, 2012, at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, PA. He was born on April 22, 1929, in Buffalo, NY, and grew up in nearby Kenmore. After graduating from Kenmore Senior High School, he attended Canisius College in Buffalo and graduated in 1949 with a BS degree. After graduation, he was employed by Bell Aircraft in Buffalo, NY.
During the Korean War, he served in the Army Tank Corps and then at the Aberdeen Arsenal, now Aberdeen Proving Ground, in Maryland. After his discharge from the Army, he went back to work for Bell Aircraft, then RCA in the area of Camden, NJ, before being transferred to NBC New York, an RCA subsidiary at the time, both of which are now owned by General Electric. Most of his career was spent in writing and editing scientific documents.
Mr. Knuth is survived by his wife Janice Loudermilk Knuth (Philadelphia, PA), a son Raymond J. Knuth (Stewartstown, PA), and his sister and brother-in-law Andrea and Charles Brandt (Trucksville, PA).
Mr. Knuth's hobbies were cats, old movies, listening to and collecting classical music as well as a variety of books. His interests included mathematics, surrealist art, vulcanology, science, and science fiction. In May 1977, he donated more than 1,200 books and 200 recordings to the Walt Whitman Poetry Center in Camden, NJ. In 1986, he donated his Fantasy and Science Fiction collection of over 5,000 books and magazines to the Temple University Library, where it became an important part of their Pascow Science Fiction Collection. He also did a program on rare classical music on WHYY FM during the 1970's.
Services and interment are pending and private.
In lieu of flowers, a tax-free donation may be made to PAWS, the Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society, 100 N. Second Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 or through their website at http://phillypaws.org. Please designate your contribution for cats in memory of Roger G. Knuth.