HANOVER, NH — Larry Danyluk died peacefully in his sleep on October 2nd, in Ventosa, Spain as he and his wife were walking the El Camino from St. Jean-Pied-de-Port, France to Santiago, Spain.

Larry graduated from Michigan State with a Civil Engineering Degree and a Master’s in Geotechnical Engineering.

Larry worked on a wide variety of projects during his 35+ year career as a Research Civil Engineer at the US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) in Hanover. From 1983 to 1985 Larry worked on a team that conducted detailed engineering site surveys in advance of the design and construction of more than 30 radar sites for the USAF North Warning System, traveling by helicopter across the remote arctic boundaries of Alaska and Canada. Later Larry was instrumental in developing and disseminating widely used criteria for shallow foundations in areas of seasonal frost. From 1999 to 2010 Larry provided critical technical expertise to CRREL’s work on the DOD Ballistic Missile Defense System. He assured that state of the art technologies were used for site selection, design, construction, and acceptance testing of strategic missile defense facilities in Alaska and California and at Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific. After his long career conducting research at CRREL he remained there for about 10 more years in roles supporting the operation of the facility as well as other facilities in CRREL’s parent organization, the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC). In those roles Larry brought his superior organizational skills and detail oriented approach to any problem that confronted him, working for example with widely different parties in the monitoring and cleanup of the remains of trichloroethylene (TCE) contamination at the CRREL site.

Larry enjoyed being outside either camping, hiking, golfing, or spending an afternoon chopping wood, raking, or mowing his lawn. His only vice as he would say would be good food and red wine!

Larry was the rock of his family. He is survived by his wife Beth of 40 years; son Brady of Seattle, Washington; his wife Sheena; and grandchildren David and Emme; daughter Casey of Minneapolis, Minnesota; her husband Sam.

A celebration of his life will be held Friday, October 11th at 1:00pm at the United Church of Christ in Hanover, NH.