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1956 - 2013 (57 years)
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Name |
Eugene Dale VON ROSENBERG |
Birth |
30 Jan 1956 |
Houston, Harris, Texas, USA |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
4 Oct 2013 |
New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA |
Burial |
Oakwood Cemetery, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA |
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Person ID |
I12943 |
von Rosenberg Family Tree |
Last Modified |
6 Jun 2022 |
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Notes |
- “After moving to New Orleans with his family in 1963, Gene lived there all of his life, except for several years in Tulsa, Oklahoma while finishing college and in Lafayette, Louisiana at the beginning of his career with Chevron. As a young man he was active as a Boy Scout in Troop 48, sponsored by St. Andrews Episcopal Church, receiving the Eagle Scout award and backpacking at Philmont Scout Ranch. He graduated from Newman High School in 1974, where he was on the school's first soccer and baseball teams. He also worked for several summers as a counselor at Camp Country Lad in central Tennessee. He attended Tulane University and graduated from the University of Tulsa in 1978 with a Bachelor of Science in petroleum engineering. He was then employed with Chevron for the next 35 years, more than 30 of those at their offices in the New Orleans area. He received an award from the Chairman of the Board for his work on the Tenneco Gulf of Mexico acquisition. Gene devoted much of his life to the service of others by volunteering for the New Orleans area Boy Scouts of America and for St. Andrews Episcopal Church. He was Scoutmaster of Troop 48 for thirty years and assisted with Cub Scout Packs 48, 56 and 26. He was on the Troop Committee for Troops 60 and 63. He was the District Roundtable Chair for twenty years and served on the New Orleans Area Council's Executive Board. He was awarded the Silver Beaver for his service to Scouting and most recently the Distinguished Eagle Scout award. With St. Andrews he was a Eucharistic minister and taught confirmation classes, having graduated from the Louisiana Diocese School for Ministry. Gene enjoyed classical music, particularly that of Johann Sebastian Bach. He attended the Bach Festival in Leipzig, Germany in 2007. He also enjoyed attending live concerts of traditional jazz music in New Orleans. He made several trips to England, most often to visit London where he especially enjoyed the music of Evensong at St. Paul's Cathedral. He followed college and professional sports, especially baseball and football, including the New Orleans Saints, the Houston Astros, the Tulane Green Wave and the Dallas Cowboys. Gene's family and his many friends and colleagues knew him as an extremely generous man. He provided support in times of need to many of them over the years. Gene felt blessed by his good fortune in life and he responded by helping others. His legacy is in the lives of the many young men to whom he taught the positive messages of Scouting and in the lives of the young people who learned Christian principles from his teaching at St. Andrews.”
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