Written by Los Altos Town Crier Report
Rudolph Bahr Jr. was born on June 19, 1923 in Brooklyn and passed peacefully on May 11, 2021 in the house he had owned in Mountain View since 1957. He graduated from Brooklyn Tech High School in 1941 and from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1945. He was commissioned into the Navy in the summer of 1945 and spent a year on active duty in Guam. He joined Sylvania as an electrical engineer on Long Island in 1946 and then went to Bell Labs in 1952. He married Jane Watkins in 1953 and their daughter Jean was born a year later. Rudy returned to Sylvania in 1955 when he was offered the chance to move to the Bay Area and he remained an employee of that company (later GTE) until his retirement in 1993. He was based in Mountain View but enjoyed international projects with extended stays in Italy, England, Japan, the Marshall Islands, the Philippines, Germany, Israel, and Cyprus.