Logan Alexander McKee Jr. ’48

Alex was born April 15, 1926, in St. Joseph, Mo., and died Sept. 15, 2015, in Nevada, Mo. He was 89.

He grew up in St. Louis and served in the Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps during World War II. He then came to Princeton, where he majored in engineering and graduated in 1949. Alex served as an officer in the Coast Guard during the Korean War. With benefit of the GI Bill, he earned a master’s degree in urban planning at Georgia Tech. This led to a wide variety of engineering, city planning, and consulting assignments for local governments, construction firms, and other private and public-sector organizations. Alex worked on projects in Missouri, Maryland, Texas, and Alaska, and served as chief inspector for the Alaska Pipeline Project.

Alex and his first wife, Margaret, had four children, Tom, Sandy, Scott, and Peggy, who all survive him. After retiring and moving to Nevada, Mo., Logan met and married his second wife, Mary Kathleen, to whom he was married for 22 years. She also survives him.