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duVal Radford Goldthwaite Jr., an inventor and pioneer of advanced manufacturing technologies, died on April 17. A longtime resident of Brielle, New Jersey, he was 86. Known to family and friends as Val, he was born on March 23, 1931, and grew up in Englewood, New Jersey. He served in the Navy from 1951-55 as a radar instructor while stationed in Norfolk, Virginia and then studied Metallurgy at Lehigh University. During his summers in college, Val worked at General Ceramics Corporation where he invented and patented the Memory Core Handler. This device enabled automated testing of the ferrite memory core used in early IBM computers. Following Lehigh, Val identified the potential of a revolutionary new "spark machining" process, electrical discharge machining (EDM). He correctly anticipated this process would be transformational in certain forms of manufacturing. Val's interest in EDM led him in 1962 to start Metem Corporation, an advanced machining and engineering company that serves the aerospace and natural gas power generation industries. Based in Parsippany, New Jersey, Metem's specialized work enables gas turbines to run hotter, longer and with lower emissions. Under Val's leadership, Metem also pioneered additional non- conventional metalworking techniques, known as Wire EDM, STEM and ECM. Val was a mentor to many. His guidance and generosity served as a catalyst to help fellow entrepreneurs survive, succeed and prosper. In 1954, Val married Lynn Rose. They had three children. Val and Lynn divorced. In 1978 Val remarried Juliet Morgan Riley who predeceased him in 2010. Val is survived by a sister, Ward Griffiths; a brother, Richard Goldthwaite; three sons--Scott Goldthwaite, Steven Goldthwaite and Carlton Goldthwaite; and eight grandchildren. Val loved to reengineer, redesign and rebuild. He was always in pursuit of excellence and able to consistently call out the best in those around him. Val spent a tremendous amount of time with his three sons shooting, fishing, and working in their shop together. Donations in Val's memory to Mount Sinai West Hospital to support the research of Dr. Richard L. Whelan, would be appreciated. Donations can be mailed to: Mount Sinai Health Systems, 425 West 59th Street, Suite 7B, New York, NY 10019. A memorial service is planned for Saturday, June 10. Details will be available at: www.baileyfuneral.com - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=duval-goldthwaite&pid=185316784#sthash.u1QUu7HI.dpuf

duVal Radford Goldthwaite Jr., an inventor and pioneer of advanced manufacturing technologies, died on April 17. A longtime resident of Brielle, New Jersey, he was 86. Known to family and friends as Val, he was born on March 23, 1931, and grew up in Englewood, New Jersey. He served in the Navy from 1951-55 as a radar instructor while stationed in Norfolk, Virginia and then studied Metallurgy at Lehigh University. During his summers in college, Val worked at General Ceramics Corporation where he invented and patented the Memory Core Handler. This device enabled automated testing of the ferrite memory core used in early IBM computers. Following Lehigh, Val identified the potential of a revolutionary new "spark machining" process, electrical discharge machining (EDM). He correctly anticipated this process would be transformational in certain forms of manufacturing. Val's interest in EDM led him in 1962 to start Metem Corporation, an advanced machining and engineering company that serves the aerospace and natural gas power generation industries. Based in Parsippany, New Jersey, Metem's specialized work enables gas turbines to run hotter, longer and with lower emissions. Under Val's leadership, Metem also pioneered additional non- conventional metalworking techniques, known as Wire EDM, STEM and ECM. Val was a mentor to many. His guidance and generosity served as a catalyst to help fellow entrepreneurs survive, succeed and prosper. In 1954, Val married Lynn Rose. They had three children. Val and Lynn divorced. In 1978 Val remarried Juliet Morgan Riley who predeceased him in 2010. Val is survived by a sister, Ward Griffiths; a brother, Richard Goldthwaite; three sons--Scott Goldthwaite, Steven Goldthwaite and Carlton Goldthwaite; and eight grandchildren. Val loved to reengineer, redesign and rebuild. He was always in pursuit of excellence and able to consistently call out the best in those around him. Val spent a tremendous amount of time with his three sons shooting, fishing, and working in their shop together. Donations in Val's memory to Mount Sinai West Hospital to support the research of Dr. Richard L. Whelan, would be appreciated. Donations can be mailed to: Mount Sinai Health Systems, 425 West 59th Street, Suite 7B, New York, NY 10019. A memorial service is planned for Saturday, June 10. Details will be available at: www.baileyfuneral.com - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=duval-goldthwaite&pid=185316784#sthash.u1QUu7HI.dpuf

Duval Radford Goldthwaite, Jr.