Robert G. Werner, 90, died June 6, 2002, in Brookings following a long illness.

He was born June 11, 1911, in New Orleans to Albert and Anna Werner. He was raised in New Orleans and graduated from Warren Easton High School. He attended Tulane University and Loyola University in New Orleans and graduated from Loyola in 1936.

Mr. Werner taught physics and mathematics, then became a junior physicist and cement inspector with the U.S. Bureau of Standards from 1937 to 1940.

On Aug. 27, 1938, he married Louise Gardner in San Antonio.

Mr. Werner served as a radio engineer with the Signal Corps, War Department in Washington, D.C., from 1940 to 1942. In 1942, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Corps (later the U.S. Air Force).

He served as a procurement planning officer in Airways and Air Communications Service and technical advisor and radio engineer in the Air Force. He retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1952.

Mr. Werner was employed as a plans analyst with the Air Force Security Service at Medina Base in San Antonio from 1952 to 1956. He worked as a physicist and engineer with the Atomic Energy Commission at Sandia Base, Albuquerque, N.M., from 1956 to 1967, when he retired from civil service.

He moved to Brookings in 2001.

Mr. Werner enjoyed fishing, golfing, hunting and playing bridge. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge in Devine, Texas, and received his 50-year pin in 1995.

He is survived by two daughters and sons-in-law, Bobbie and Dan Aldinger of Brookings; and Rhonda and George Berhopec of Clovis, N.M.; son and daughter-in-law, Albert "Pete" and Dusty Werner of Conchas, N.M.; 10 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his wife; and brother, Albert.

A memorial service will be Sept. 17 in Devine, Texas.

Cremation is under the direction of Redwood Memorial Chapel.