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Friday
4
March
Burial of Cremains
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Friday, March 4, 2022
Mount Sinai Cemetery
374 Hwy 79
Morganville, New Jersey, United States
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Ron Candrea posted a condolence
Saturday, March 19, 2022
Larry was my first office mate for years after I first joined MITRE in 2003 and the office moved to Industrial Way West in Eatontown. Larry's quiet confidence and caring nature had a calming effect on me, for which I am so grateful. I sure needed his help with staying calm, given the loss and turbulence in my life the years up to and including that one. Have you ever noticed how Life sometimes puts just the right person/people in our lives to help us through?
Little things can accumulate to make a big difference, that's how it was with lots of little chats we'd have. I like to think we helped calm each other down a bit by confiding how stressful it could be to start on new work projects, when we often had so much to learn quickly about technology, processes and the nature of problems we helped government people with. I knew Larry during the last ten years of his long and varied working career. After that, we stayed connected through lunches (see Paul Sass' memorial notes), and phone calls.
Interesting isn't it, some of the things we remember about people? I can hear the sound of his voice in my head. And I think of him bringing cooked chicken from home for lunch at the office, and having turkey sandwiches. And then, near the end, he'd get me my own turkey sandwiches for lunches with him during visits to his apartment at Bayside Manor in Keansburg.
There was comfort for him at Bayside Manor, he said. His parents lived out the end of their lives there with the help of caring staff. Some staff who knew his parents were still there when Larry took his turn.
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Rhonda Zmuda posted a condolence
Friday, March 4, 2022
Sending loving condolences at this time of loss. I have so many wonderful memories of my Uncle Larry his smiles laughter and great joy of life and family. In recent years during our many phone calls, he never lost hope and tried his best to cope always being the best he could. I am honored to be his niece. Rhonda Zmuda
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Stu Dworkin uploaded photo(s)
Thursday, March 3, 2022
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Paul Sass lit a candle
Thursday, March 3, 2022
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Larry and I first met at Ft Monmouth, surprisingly about 50 years ago, where we both were assigned to the Comm ADP Lab at CECOM. He was on the Computer or C2 side, and I was a Comms guy, or radio geek, but we always found we had things to chat about. Larry and I followed very similar paths throughout our careers. We both started our careers at Brooklyn Poly, although he got his PHd. Being a few years behind him, I found I often turned to him for advice on things like Govt retirement, health care, insurance, and taxes. He was a good listener, always offered me sound advice, and was always a good friend. I remember when he got interested in that new computer network we were supporting in the 70’s and 80’s called the ARPANET, as well as our next adventure into Packet Radio at Ft Bragg. Larry was always that respected colleague to whom I could turn for a sanity check, even for something out of his lane. We both retired early from CECOM, and I remember talking to him countless times about this next big step for both of us. Not surprisingly, we both ended up landing at MITRE on Wyckoff Road where we both found a new home and were always able to find countless new and challenging assignments.
911 hit Larry and Gail very hard, maybe even harder than most, and they both struggled for years with the pain caused by that horrific experience that we all lived through.
After Larry accepted his position at Monmouth University, he convinced me to develop a class on Army radios, and encouraged me to teach it.
When I became a Teleworker in Florida in 2004, we stayed in touch, and I continued to speak to Larry on a wide range of subjects, as well as when I again needed his advice. After he retired from MITRE and I returned to NJ, we kept in touch and tried to meet regularly for lunch with our MITRE colleagues Ron Candrea, Joe Diliberto, John Santapietro, and Vern O’Meally, who we also lost not too long ago. But we started running out of local diners, and our lunches got less frequent. And then COVID hit. By then, Larry had been through a few tough years following his first bout with a brain tumor, but like the energizer bunny, he shocked us all with a nearly full recovery, gradually regaining his mobility and returning to his normal regimen of daily swimming. To this day, I attribute his excellent success in bouncing back from several challenging diagnoses to his daily swimming ritual. He set a great example for us all, and was truly an inspiration in his own quiet way.
But when COVID hit, and he lost Gail in the hospital last year, it was truly devastating. We tried to stay in touch through Brian Charnick’s weekly Ft Monmouth Zoom calls, and I always was relieved when Larry dialed in. But now he was having more trouble, and he stopped joining us regularly. I am very sorry that COVID prevented us from seeing Larry near the end.
Larry was always a good friend and a great example in many dimensions. When I spoke to Gerry Gilbert this week, one of our other alumni from MITRE-Eatontown, he summed it up perfectly by saying:
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Larry was always kind to me, and always exhibited intelligence and a calm, wise demeanor”. He was a mensch”.
For those of you that don’t know this great yiddush term, a “mensch” is simply “a person of integrity and honor”. I really couldn’t say it any better.
Larry, we will miss you, and may your memory be a blessing.
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Mike Gutman posted a condolence
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Larry and I spent three years rooming together first in a dorm and then a small apartment when we attended Worcester Tech, 1954-1958. He was very active in sports, first in soccer and then lacrosse. He was very bright and often helped me with my studies and as he was amongst the few at the top of our class. We stayed in contact over the years when attending reunions and it was always a pleasure renewing our friendship and chuckling over some of our adventures. In later years he gave back generously to Tech as his thanks for the fine education he received. I will miss you old friend, rest in peace. Mike Gutman
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Brian Charnick posted a condolence
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
I first met Larry when he was part of a three-person panel interviewing and selecting me for a lateral transfer at Ft. Monmouth. He sat there along with Dr. Ted Klein and Steve Steinhauer. Larry was the Command and Control Division Chief, responsible for conducting/coordinating advanced technologies/ distributed database software for the tactical army forces. I happily was selected and worked for Larry in the Command and Control Division. He worked closely with Dr. Mike Frankel, SRI, International and the Army Science Board in bringing the latest research tools to the tactical warfighter. This included the first introduction of “packet radios” (tactical internet to US Army Europe (USAREUR). Larry helped me with my first publication in the Army AFCEA “SIGNAL” Magazine about this work. He was close with his Brooklyn Poly PhD buddies at the Hexagon including Howard Wichansky and Ted Klein. Larry helped develop/field the introduction of Tactical Fiber Optic Cable Assemblies to the tactical forces. I will miss him
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Stu Dworkin posted a condolence
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Dad had great sense of humor, and he kept it even during some pretty unfunny circumstances:
"How am I doing? Good - if you have a really sick sense of humor." - In Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital, 2022
(After asking me the name of the place where he usually stayed)-
"That's it - Bayside Manor. I couldn't have remembered that if you dumped a bucket of brains into my head." - In Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital, 2022
"Oh - I was wondering why that doctor kept asking me about my other end so much. I thought he said he was a NEUR-ologist. So he was a UR-ologist, huh?" - In Kessler Acute Rehab, 2014
"I missed on one of the questions they asked me. They asked me who the President of the United States was [Obama]. I said Osama Bin Laden." - In Kessler Acute Rehab, 2014
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Allen Sparer posted a condolence
Monday, February 28, 2022
My first memories of Larry were when my family went to New York, especially in the summer when we went to visit Uncle Joe and Aunt Molly on the farm. I liked Larry a lot. Even though he was a teenager and I was a little kid of 7 or 8, he talked to me about serious subjects, asked my opinions, and listened to what I had to say. He was the coolest "big kid" I knew. I would sometimes brag to my friends about him.
When I was looking at colleges, he and Gail took me to see Worcester Tech.
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Later, we went separate ways and didn't see each other much. After I moved back east, I used to see him at Eli and Betty's pool parties. He hadn't changed that much. He was still a serious person and a good listener.
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Stu Dworkin uploaded photo(s)
Monday, February 28, 2022
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Larry looking good on 6/16/19 at age 82, at a family graduation get together.
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The family of Larry Udell Dworkin uploaded a photo
Monday, February 28, 2022
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