Ronald Durwood Simpson, 75 of Lexington Park died March 13, 2015, at his home following a lengthy struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. Born on July 10, 1939 in Alliance, NC, he was the sixth of seven children of the late Wilford Daniel and Nora Ophelia Daniels Simpson. Upon his graduation from high school in 1957, Durwood, as he was known to family and school chums, enlisted in the Navy where he was very quickly introduced as Ron forevermore. He was honorably discharged, after two enlistments, as an Aviation Electrician’s Mate First Class, AE1 and began his career as a civil servant at Patuxent River Naval Air Station in 1966. It was during his last tour of enlistment at Patuxent River Naval Air Station when he met his future wife, Marlene on a blind date. They were married on October 20, 1962 and settled in Lexington Park upon his separation from the Navy. His career serving our Armed Forces spanned 37 years by the time he retired from civil service in 1995. For the entirety of his career, he was involved in all manner of human factors engineering tasks for both experimental and established fleet assets. Perhaps one of the most interesting assignments […]
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