Edward 'Jay' Engel, a Bayfield, Colorado resident died December 16, 1999 at Mercy Medical Center in Durango. He was 71. Jay was born August 6, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois and moved to Southern California as a child and graduated from UCLA. He sold specialty steel products during his career.

He married Virginia Harris in 1949 (SPHS '46) and they had two daughters:  Nancy Louise Engel Carroll and Ellen Jayne Engel Brandt. After his first wife's death from breast cancer in 1972, he married Barbara Techmann, who had two daughters:  Sandra and Cheryl, by a former marriage. In the early 1990s, Jay and Barbara retired to Ignacio, where they became involved in fly-fishing and horses. Jay was an active member of Trout Unlimited up to his final illness. He had a lifelong passion for jazz and tennis, rooted for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and grew fond of computers in his later years.

Jay is survived by his second wife, Barbara, and her two daughters; two daughters by his first wife, Nan and Ellen; a brother Gerald 'Jerry' Engel (SPHS '49); and two grandchildren.

The Durango Herald, December 1999