Extracted from The Aiken Standard (Aiken, SC)
Friday, August 7, 1987

Harold S. Sanders, Manhattan Project Engineer Dies At 79

Funeral services for Harold S. Sanders of 440 Crossways Place will take place at 2 p.m. tomorrow at George Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be in Bethany Cemetery.

Mr. Sanders, a retired Du Pont engineer, died Tuesday in Columbia. He retired from the Savannah River Laboratory after 20 years. He had worked on the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, Tenn. For many years, he owned Crossways, one of Aiken's historic homes.

Dr. Clark Ice, retired director of the Savannah River Laboratory, recalled that Mr. Sanders' field was nuclear instrumentation and that he was highly regarded by his colleagues. ``He is especially remembered as a warm and friendly person, too,'' Dr. Ice said.

Survivors are his wife, Maxine Hawthorne Sanders; two daughters, Luanne Gripkey and Linda Gonzalez, both of Columbia; and two sisters, Mrs. Louie Self and Mrs. Mrs. Henry Bergman, both of Texas.

The family will receive friends from 12:30 to 2 p.m. tomorrow at the funeral home.