Spurgeon Smith

Spurgeon Eugene Smith of Elgin, 85, a longtime resident of central Texas and one of the founders of Tracor, died on Monday January 17, 2011. Gene was born in San Marcos, Texas on July 17, 1925 and joined the U.S. Navy at the age of seventeen. After attending Midshipman39s School in New York City, he was sent to Columbia, Bowdoin College and MIT. As the war ended, he finished his training and served for a year as an electronics officer on the USS Harlan R. Dickson DD708.