n.1. Agnes, geb. 03/10/1919, Garland, Box Elder County, Utah, VSA, oorl. 10/07/2009, Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, Virginia, VSA, begr. Norbeck Memorial Park, Olney, Montgomery County, Maryland, VSA x 26/06/1951, Salt Lake City, Utah, VSA met Leonard Corbett AARNODT, geb. 19/07/1922, Salt Lake City, Utah, VSA, oorl. 07/04/2009, Harrisonburg, Harrisonburg City, Virginia, VSA, begr. Norbeck Memorial Park
Olney, Montgomery County, Maryland, VSA, s.v. Leonard Waldemer Aarnodt en Margaret Corbett.Agnes was die dogter van Lawrence Wortley en Debora May King.
Leonard Corbett graduated from the University
of Utah with a degree in Electrical Engineering and received a Ph.D. in Physics
from Columbia University in New York City. During World War II, he worked on
the Manhattan District Project, which developed the atomic bomb.
He married Agnes Wortley Aamodt on June 26,
1951.
They lived in Manhattan, N.Y., while he was
completing his degree at Columbia University.
They then moved to Provo, Utah, where Corbett
taught at Brigham Young University in the Mathematics, Physics, and Engineering
departments from 1953 through 1956. Corbett and Agnes then made their home in
Silver Spring, Md.
He was on the Senior Staff at the Johns
Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in its Research Center from 1956
though 1995. Corbett was a devoted Boy Scout leader and served in many
leadership positions, including District Commissioner and Assistant Council
Commissioner. He was a recipient of the Scouting Silver Beaver Award.
Leonard Corbett Aamodt, 86, of Harrisonburg, Va.,
(formerly of Silver Spring, Md.), passed away on April 7, 2009, at Virginia
Mennonite Retirement Community.
He is survived by his beloved wife, Agnes
Wortley Aamodt currently of Harrisonburg, Va., and their five children, Leonard
W. Aamodt and his wife, Sylvia, of Harrisonburg, Deborah L. Hart and her
husband, Grant, of Orem, Utah, Suzanne Gathro and her husband, David, of
Jacksonville, Fla., Kristine Simmons, and her husband, Gary, of Midland, Texas,
and David C. Aamodt, and his wife, Kathy, of Kansas City, Mo. Corbett is also
survived by 35 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. He is also survived
by his sister, Donna Harvey and husband, Robert, of Magna, Utah. He was
preceded in death by his sister, Vivian, and his brother, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, April
8, 2009, at 7 p.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 210
South Ave., Harrisonburg, Va., with Bishop James Herrick officiating. The
family will receive friends from 6 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. prior to the service.
A second funeral service will be held
Thursday, April 9, 2009, at noon at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, 500 Randolph Road, Silver Spring, Md., with Bishop Timothy Willis
officiating. The family will receive friends from 11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. prior
to the service. Burial will follow at Norbeck Memorial Park in Silver Spring,
Md.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to
the Boy Scouts of America National Capital Area Council at National Capital
Area Council, BSA, 9190 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD, 20814. (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76011588/leonard-corbett-aamodt)
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