Daughter of Arthur Frank Stapley and Lula Tullis.
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Married 14 Jun 1947 in Boulder City, Clark County, Nevada to Leslie Allen Cross (1923-2004).
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Carma retired from Hughes Aircraft Fullerton, California Ground Systems.
"OUTLOOK" Vol. 7, Number 1 Jan.-Feb. 1980 Article: Super Squawkers Strive for Static Awareness ....
shows picture of Carma with the group of the Quality Circle that originally began in Japan in the mid 1960's.
The Quality Circle functions as a problem solving nucleus for the Electronic Assembly area. The group is comprised of twelve electronic assembly inspectors, a supervisor leader and a facilitator (Quality employee). They meet for an hour once a week to discuss problems in their area and look for possible causes and solutions.
"....To date considerable improvements have been made due to the efforts of these employees...."
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Part of a talk given by Carma at the LDS Relief Society 155th Birthday Dinner on 21 Mar 1997. She mentions her work at Hughes Aircraft.
"Bridging Pioneers with the Space Age"
".... I was chosen to be one of six Vanguard girls in our area to work on a special project. That project was the Surveyor. The first man-made machine to land on the moon.
A pioneer of the Space Age.
The Surveyor was special not only in the trip it took but it was the first real big test of miniaturization of components of the electronic age.
The tubes and tube sockets which were large, heavy and fragile were replaced by transistors.
We had tiny little black squares with lots of legs we called flat packs. They were integrated circuits. Today they are famous as computer chips.
Before miniaturization the components on a 4"x 4" card weighing about 5 or 6 oz. would of taken a board as big as a dining room table and would need 2 strong men to carry it.
Later I had the privilege of seeing the camera that the astronauts took from the Surveyor and brought back from their trip to the moon.
The chrome that looked so bright and shiner than chrome on a new car had been in such high heat that it was shades of blue and black.
A few years later I worked on Semi Rigid Cables. We made the cables and I hand carried them from Fullerton to Culver City to be used on the Intelsat IV Satellite that made history a few years ago by taking close-up pictures of Mars, Venus, Saturn, Uranus, and Jupiter then continuing on out into space.
The last thing I worked on was the airplane with a satellite on top called the AWACS. I had the privilege of building the prototype of the AWACS and helped build the 6 other systems...."
................................
Note: Hughes Space and Communications Group and the Hughes Space Systems Division built the world's first geosynchronous communications satellite, Syncom, in 1963 and followed by the first geosynchronous weather satellite, ATS-1, in 1966. Later that year their Surveyor 1 made the first soft landing on the Moon as part of the lead-up to the moon landings in Project Apollo.
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Obituary from: Times-News, The (Twin Falls, ID)
October 18, 2002
Deceased Name: Carma Stapley Cross
Carma Stapley Cross, age 74, of Hagerman died Tuesday, October 15, 2002, at Magic Valley Regional Medical Center in Twin Falls. Carma was born March 11, 1928, in Cedar City, Utah, the daughter of Arthur Frank & Lula Tullis Stapley. It was on June 14, 1947, that she married Leslie Cross in Boulder City, Nev. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Boise LDS Temple. For many years Carma was employed in the Aerospace industry as a quality control inspector. Survivors include her husband, Leslie; children, Allen (Karen) Cross; Connie Lee (Cross)Krueger; and Larry (Jenny) Cross, numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. Also surviving, one brother, Ray (Afton) Stapley, sisters, Norma (Don) Nielson, Penny (Richard) Albrecht, brother-in-laws, LoRaine Chamberlain and Alan Morris. She was preceded in death by her parents, brother, Robert Stapley and sisters, Lila Chamberlain and Faye Morris. Funeral Services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Monday, October 21, 2002, at the Hagerman LDS Church. Burial will be in Hagerman Cemetery. Visitation & viewing will be from 5-7 p.m. Sunday at Demaray Funeral Chapel in Gooding and from 10-11 a.m. Monday at the Church.
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Married 14 Jun 1947 in Boulder City, Clark County, Nevada to Leslie Allen Cross (1923-2004).
....................
Carma retired from Hughes Aircraft Fullerton, California Ground Systems.
"OUTLOOK" Vol. 7, Number 1 Jan.-Feb. 1980 Article: Super Squawkers Strive for Static Awareness ....
shows picture of Carma with the group of the Quality Circle that originally began in Japan in the mid 1960's.
The Quality Circle functions as a problem solving nucleus for the Electronic Assembly area. The group is comprised of twelve electronic assembly inspectors, a supervisor leader and a facilitator (Quality employee). They meet for an hour once a week to discuss problems in their area and look for possible causes and solutions.
"....To date considerable improvements have been made due to the efforts of these employees...."
*******************************************************************************************
Part of a talk given by Carma at the LDS Relief Society 155th Birthday Dinner on 21 Mar 1997. She mentions her work at Hughes Aircraft.
"Bridging Pioneers with the Space Age"
".... I was chosen to be one of six Vanguard girls in our area to work on a special project. That project was the Surveyor. The first man-made machine to land on the moon.
A pioneer of the Space Age.
The Surveyor was special not only in the trip it took but it was the first real big test of miniaturization of components of the electronic age.
The tubes and tube sockets which were large, heavy and fragile were replaced by transistors.
We had tiny little black squares with lots of legs we called flat packs. They were integrated circuits. Today they are famous as computer chips.
Before miniaturization the components on a 4"x 4" card weighing about 5 or 6 oz. would of taken a board as big as a dining room table and would need 2 strong men to carry it.
Later I had the privilege of seeing the camera that the astronauts took from the Surveyor and brought back from their trip to the moon.
The chrome that looked so bright and shiner than chrome on a new car had been in such high heat that it was shades of blue and black.
A few years later I worked on Semi Rigid Cables. We made the cables and I hand carried them from Fullerton to Culver City to be used on the Intelsat IV Satellite that made history a few years ago by taking close-up pictures of Mars, Venus, Saturn, Uranus, and Jupiter then continuing on out into space.
The last thing I worked on was the airplane with a satellite on top called the AWACS. I had the privilege of building the prototype of the AWACS and helped build the 6 other systems...."
................................
Note: Hughes Space and Communications Group and the Hughes Space Systems Division built the world's first geosynchronous communications satellite, Syncom, in 1963 and followed by the first geosynchronous weather satellite, ATS-1, in 1966. Later that year their Surveyor 1 made the first soft landing on the Moon as part of the lead-up to the moon landings in Project Apollo.
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Obituary from: Times-News, The (Twin Falls, ID)
October 18, 2002
Deceased Name: Carma Stapley Cross
Carma Stapley Cross, age 74, of Hagerman died Tuesday, October 15, 2002, at Magic Valley Regional Medical Center in Twin Falls. Carma was born March 11, 1928, in Cedar City, Utah, the daughter of Arthur Frank & Lula Tullis Stapley. It was on June 14, 1947, that she married Leslie Cross in Boulder City, Nev. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Boise LDS Temple. For many years Carma was employed in the Aerospace industry as a quality control inspector. Survivors include her husband, Leslie; children, Allen (Karen) Cross; Connie Lee (Cross)Krueger; and Larry (Jenny) Cross, numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. Also surviving, one brother, Ray (Afton) Stapley, sisters, Norma (Don) Nielson, Penny (Richard) Albrecht, brother-in-laws, LoRaine Chamberlain and Alan Morris. She was preceded in death by her parents, brother, Robert Stapley and sisters, Lila Chamberlain and Faye Morris. Funeral Services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Monday, October 21, 2002, at the Hagerman LDS Church. Burial will be in Hagerman Cemetery. Visitation & viewing will be from 5-7 p.m. Sunday at Demaray Funeral Chapel in Gooding and from 10-11 a.m. Monday at the Church.
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Daughter of Arthur Frank Stapley and Lula Tullis.
..............
Married 14 Jun 1947 in Boulder City, Clark County, Nevada to Leslie Allen Cross (1923-2004).
....................
Carma retired from Hughes Aircraft Fullerton, California Ground Systems.
"OUTLOOK" Vol. 7, Number 1 Jan.-Feb. 1980 Article: Super Squawkers Strive for Static Awareness ....
shows picture of Carma with the group of the Quality Circle that originally began in Japan in the mid 1960's.
The Quality Circle functions as a problem solving nucleus for the Electronic Assembly area. The group is comprised of twelve electronic assembly inspectors, a supervisor leader and a facilitator (Quality employee). They meet for an hour once a week to discuss problems in their area and look for possible causes and solutions.
"....To date considerable improvements have been made due to the efforts of these employees...."
*******************************************************************************************
Part of a talk given by Carma at the LDS Relief Society 155th Birthday Dinner on 21 Mar 1997. She mentions her work at Hughes Aircraft.
"Bridging Pioneers with the Space Age"
".... I was chosen to be one of six Vanguard girls in our area to work on a special project. That project was the Surveyor. The first man-made machine to land on the moon.
A pioneer of the Space Age.
The Surveyor was special not only in the trip it took but it was the first real big test of miniaturization of components of the electronic age.
The tubes and tube sockets which were large, heavy and fragile were replaced by transistors.
We had tiny little black squares with lots of legs we called flat packs. They were integrated circuits. Today they are famous as computer chips.
Before miniaturization the components on a 4"x 4" card weighing about 5 or 6 oz. would of taken a board as big as a dining room table and would need 2 strong men to carry it.
Later I had the privilege of seeing the camera that the astronauts took from the Surveyor and brought back from their trip to the moon.
The chrome that looked so bright and shiner than chrome on a new car had been in such high heat that it was shades of blue and black.
A few years later I worked on Semi Rigid Cables. We made the cables and I hand carried them from Fullerton to Culver City to be used on the Intelsat IV Satellite that made history a few years ago by taking close-up pictures of Mars, Venus, Saturn, Uranus, and Jupiter then continuing on out into space.
The last thing I worked on was the airplane with a satellite on top called the AWACS. I had the privilege of building the prototype of the AWACS and helped build the 6 other systems...."
................................
Note: Hughes Space and Communications Group and the Hughes Space Systems Division built the world's first geosynchronous communications satellite, Syncom, in 1963 and followed by the first geosynchronous weather satellite, ATS-1, in 1966. Later that year their Surveyor 1 made the first soft landing on the Moon as part of the lead-up to the moon landings in Project Apollo.
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Obituary from: Times-News, The (Twin Falls, ID)
October 18, 2002
Deceased Name: Carma Stapley Cross
Carma Stapley Cross, age 74, of Hagerman died Tuesday, October 15, 2002, at Magic Valley Regional Medical Center in Twin Falls. Carma was born March 11, 1928, in Cedar City, Utah, the daughter of Arthur Frank & Lula Tullis Stapley. It was on June 14, 1947, that she married Leslie Cross in Boulder City, Nev. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Boise LDS Temple. For many years Carma was employed in the Aerospace industry as a quality control inspector. Survivors include her husband, Leslie; children, Allen (Karen) Cross; Connie Lee (Cross)Krueger; and Larry (Jenny) Cross, numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. Also surviving, one brother, Ray (Afton) Stapley, sisters, Norma (Don) Nielson, Penny (Richard) Albrecht, brother-in-laws, LoRaine Chamberlain and Alan Morris. She was preceded in death by her parents, brother, Robert Stapley and sisters, Lila Chamberlain and Faye Morris. Funeral Services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Monday, October 21, 2002, at the Hagerman LDS Church. Burial will be in Hagerman Cemetery. Visitation & viewing will be from 5-7 p.m. Sunday at Demaray Funeral Chapel in Gooding and from 10-11 a.m. Monday at the Church.
************************************************************************************
..............
Married 14 Jun 1947 in Boulder City, Clark County, Nevada to Leslie Allen Cross (1923-2004).
....................
Carma retired from Hughes Aircraft Fullerton, California Ground Systems.
"OUTLOOK" Vol. 7, Number 1 Jan.-Feb. 1980 Article: Super Squawkers Strive for Static Awareness ....
shows picture of Carma with the group of the Quality Circle that originally began in Japan in the mid 1960's.
The Quality Circle functions as a problem solving nucleus for the Electronic Assembly area. The group is comprised of twelve electronic assembly inspectors, a supervisor leader and a facilitator (Quality employee). They meet for an hour once a week to discuss problems in their area and look for possible causes and solutions.
"....To date considerable improvements have been made due to the efforts of these employees...."
*******************************************************************************************
Part of a talk given by Carma at the LDS Relief Society 155th Birthday Dinner on 21 Mar 1997. She mentions her work at Hughes Aircraft.
"Bridging Pioneers with the Space Age"
".... I was chosen to be one of six Vanguard girls in our area to work on a special project. That project was the Surveyor. The first man-made machine to land on the moon.
A pioneer of the Space Age.
The Surveyor was special not only in the trip it took but it was the first real big test of miniaturization of components of the electronic age.
The tubes and tube sockets which were large, heavy and fragile were replaced by transistors.
We had tiny little black squares with lots of legs we called flat packs. They were integrated circuits. Today they are famous as computer chips.
Before miniaturization the components on a 4"x 4" card weighing about 5 or 6 oz. would of taken a board as big as a dining room table and would need 2 strong men to carry it.
Later I had the privilege of seeing the camera that the astronauts took from the Surveyor and brought back from their trip to the moon.
The chrome that looked so bright and shiner than chrome on a new car had been in such high heat that it was shades of blue and black.
A few years later I worked on Semi Rigid Cables. We made the cables and I hand carried them from Fullerton to Culver City to be used on the Intelsat IV Satellite that made history a few years ago by taking close-up pictures of Mars, Venus, Saturn, Uranus, and Jupiter then continuing on out into space.
The last thing I worked on was the airplane with a satellite on top called the AWACS. I had the privilege of building the prototype of the AWACS and helped build the 6 other systems...."
................................
Note: Hughes Space and Communications Group and the Hughes Space Systems Division built the world's first geosynchronous communications satellite, Syncom, in 1963 and followed by the first geosynchronous weather satellite, ATS-1, in 1966. Later that year their Surveyor 1 made the first soft landing on the Moon as part of the lead-up to the moon landings in Project Apollo.
********************************************************************
Obituary from: Times-News, The (Twin Falls, ID)
October 18, 2002
Deceased Name: Carma Stapley Cross
Carma Stapley Cross, age 74, of Hagerman died Tuesday, October 15, 2002, at Magic Valley Regional Medical Center in Twin Falls. Carma was born March 11, 1928, in Cedar City, Utah, the daughter of Arthur Frank & Lula Tullis Stapley. It was on June 14, 1947, that she married Leslie Cross in Boulder City, Nev. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Boise LDS Temple. For many years Carma was employed in the Aerospace industry as a quality control inspector. Survivors include her husband, Leslie; children, Allen (Karen) Cross; Connie Lee (Cross)Krueger; and Larry (Jenny) Cross, numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. Also surviving, one brother, Ray (Afton) Stapley, sisters, Norma (Don) Nielson, Penny (Richard) Albrecht, brother-in-laws, LoRaine Chamberlain and Alan Morris. She was preceded in death by her parents, brother, Robert Stapley and sisters, Lila Chamberlain and Faye Morris. Funeral Services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Monday, October 21, 2002, at the Hagerman LDS Church. Burial will be in Hagerman Cemetery. Visitation & viewing will be from 5-7 p.m. Sunday at Demaray Funeral Chapel in Gooding and from 10-11 a.m. Monday at the Church.
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