Benjamin Bookbinder a civilian engineer for the military died January 29, 2013.
He was born in New York and moved to the Jersey Shore more than sixty years ago. He received his electrical degree rom New York University.
He served with the U.S. Signal Corp laboratory at Fort Monmouth for 38 years. Benjamin was a long time member of the ERAD Electronic Warfare Laboratory and received the prestigious Commanders Award for continuous outstanding leadership and innovative management while chief of electromagnetic vulnerability and electronic counter measures division.
He is survived by his wife Judith of Deal,NJ. His daughter and son-in-law Jane and Arthur Rosenberg and his grandchildren all of Lexington, Mass.
Services 1:00pm Thursday at Bloomfield-Cooper Jewish Chapels, 2130 Hwy 35, Ocean Twp. with internment to follow at Chesed Shel Ames cemetery, Neptune, NJ.
Bloomfield-Cooper Jewish Chapels, Ocean Twp. is in charge of arrangements.