Howard Paul DeWees

Celebration of Life Howard Paul DeWees, age 69, of Bloomington, MN, born August 18, 1954, passed away on March 18, 2024. He was a beloved husband, son, brother, uncle and friend to many. Preceded in death by parents Lawrence and Betty DeWees. Survived by wife Deborah, brother Scott (Gail), sister Sue, niece Sara (Nick), nephew Matthew and many friends. • Howard was born in Richfield, Minnesota. Graduated from Richfield Senior High in 1972. While attending school he was on the wrestling and tennis team and played the French horn in the orchestra. Howard auditioned and was invited to play with the Minnesota Youth Symphonies. Auditions consisted of four components: a solo piece, excerpts, scales, and sight-reading. Howard also played with the Minneapolis Post Office Band. Howard graduated from the University of Minnesota and majored in Computer Science. He attended Metro State University for 2 years studying Psychology & General Studies. Howard had an Associate's Degree in Computers & Electronic Technology from Northwestern Electronics Institute, that included 3 hours lab and 3 hours theory, for 5 days a week for 28 months. Howard enlisted in the U. S. Navy from October 1974 thru October 1980 and was in the Reserves for 4 years. He provided training and support at the Naval Training Center Electronics School, in Orlando, FL., and the Navy Reserves supporting Seal Team One, in Coronado, CA, as Advanced Communication Support. Howard was the National Applications Engineer, for 28 years and 6 months at Sick, Inc., one of the world's leading manufacturers of sensors and safety systems, for industrial applications. Howard always enjoyed plant walkthroughs. He would walk the plant and inform the manufacturer, how to safe guard their equipment or define the problem they were having and advise them how to resolve their issue. He traveled frequently to the main headquarters for General Motors in Detroit and would meet with top management. Other large customers he assisted to safe guard their equipment and plants were; Ford, Toyota, Kraft Foods, Boeing, many locations for the U. S. Post Office and several major airports. He loved solving their complicated issues. Customers that knew him well, would call him at home, even on weekends when they had a problem, because they always knew Howard would have the solution to their issue. Many times, he designed and built a prototype, to test and evaluate how his solution would work and then show the solution to users for feedback. While employed by Sick, Inc. Howard traveled across the United States, Germany, Sweden, Canada and Mexico. He truly enjoyed his work there. He retired in August of 2019. Howard was the Senior Engineering Development Specialist for Unisys for 14 years. Working on the Unisys 1100 series in mainframe hardware development. Once they even had to charter a plane for him, to immediately, get to the job site that was located in Texas. He also traveled across the United States for Unisys. He was a member of PMA (Precision Metal Forming Association) from January 2001 to present and a member of ANSI (American National Standards Institute) from January 1995 to present, where he wrote ANSI Standards, that were published. He was also a member of Machine Safe Guarding for 8 years and IEC 62061 and ISO 13849 Machinery Functional Safety for 12 years. .

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Howard Paul DeWees

August 18, 1954 - March 18, 2024

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Howard Paul DeWees

August 18, 1954 - March 18, 2024

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