Joined King Radio In 1969

Honeywell has posted on its Facebook page that former King Radio President Robert Tye (R.T.) Cox passed away December 13, 2013, at the age of 96.

In a memorial posted on the Honeywell-Bendix/King Facebook page, Cox is remembered as someone who grew up with radio; first as a hobby for one with a lifelong curiosity on how things work, then as an electrical engineering student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

As his part of the war effort he left his doctoral studies to join a small electronics firm in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1941. When Collins Radio expanded his duties grew and he served as general manager of the Cedar Rapids Division, vice president for space projects in Dallas, and member of the board of directors. In 1969 he went to King Radio, an avionics firm in Olathe, Kansas, from which he retired as president and CEO in 1986. He served on the board of what is now the Overland Park Regional Medical Center.

Marian MacLachlan and R.T. were married for over 71 years. A family constant was summer in their native Upper Peninsula of Michigan, first at Bay Mills and from 1973 in the Les Cheneaux Islands. He built his first boat in his Iowa basement and taught himself to sail. A later boat, "The 7C's", won the local Ensign regatta in 1983. R.T. ("Bob" to colleagues and friends) served on Les Cheneaux Yacht Club committees and as president of the Les Cheneaux Islands Association. He was sailing last summer and tracking Lake Huron water levels from his hospice bed.

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