World War II naval officer, design engineer
Axel W. “Bill” Linder Jr., 83, of Millbury and Harvard, died Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013, in St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester. He was born in Worcester to Axel W. Linder Sr., and Catherine (Whalen) Linder. He was a graduate of Worcester Academy and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. During World War II, Bill served three years as a naval officer in the San Francisco Bay area working with Radiation Laboratory and was actively involved in atom bomb testing in Nevada and Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
Bill worked for Westinghouse for a few years before leaving to work as a design engineer for H.H. Scott. He then worked at Bose Corporation until he retired. His interests included computers, music, and his family.
Bill leaves his wife of 61 years, Jeannette (Mongeon) Linder; two sons, Kenneth Linder and his wife, Susan, of Stafford Springs, Conn., and Michael Linder and his wife, Susan, of Medford; three grandchildren, Kenneth Jr. and his wife, Lisa, of Leesburg, Va., Jason of Nashville, Tenn., and Christina Boglarski and her husband, Michael, of Middleton, Conn.; two great-grandchildren, Adam and Samantha of Leesburg, Va.
Services will be private. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to a charity of the donor’s choice.
