Victor Irvin Fredda Jr.

Victor Irvin Fredda, Jr. passed away on June 4, 2024. Vic was born in Perth Amboy Hospital and raised in Matawan, New Jersey. He attended Matawan High School for two years and graduated from Admiral Farragut Academy in 1954, with an Honor School appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. Vic graduated from USNA in 1958 and was assigned to the USS Gearing (DD-710) as ASW Officer and then Gunnery Officer. The Gearing spent many months on deployments to the Mediterranean, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Africa and more. Vic was ordered to the USS Ely (PCE-880) as Executive Officer in 1961. His medals included National Defense, Navy Expeditionary, Armed Forces Expeditionary, and Expert Pistol.

Vic and Nancy Fredericksen of Galveston, Texas were married in July 1959 and moved immediately to Norfolk, Va., and then Charleston, SC. While on the Ely, in Sheboygan, Wisc., their baby son, Dan, joined the family. It was after that when Vic decided to leave the Navy to spend more time with his growing family. Vic was hired by Westinghouse Electric Corp. as an Associated Engineer and was transferred to Glen Burnie, MD., where their baby daughter, Amy, completed the family.

Vic was promoted to Data Processing Manager in 1966 and remained in management until his retirement from Westinghouse in December 1994.

During the year from 1963 through 1971 Vic attended John Hopkins and then George Washington Universities at night, worked at Westinghouse (managed a three shift Data Processing Operation), was Vice President Chesapeake Computer Consultants a company that he and several associates formed, while Nancy attended Anne Arundel College. He received as MS in Systems Management from GWU in 1971 and he family moved to Pittsburgh, Pa., where he was a Systems Planning Consultant and then Manager of MIS for Public Systems. In 1974, he transferred to Sharon, Pa., where he was Manager Materials and Systems at Medium Power Transformer.

In 1981, Vic accepted the assignment to establish the Engineering Computer Systems and Planning and Scheduling functions for Westinghouse Power Systems Headquarters in Orlando, Florida, where he retired in 1994. His 32 years at Westinghouse covered Defense and Space, Construction, Transmission and Distributions, and Power Generation.

In 1995 he was employed as Manager, MIS for Leisurebay Industries, Inc., in Orlando, for four years and then as Program Director, Siemens-Westinghouse Contractor Staffing for CDI Corp for four years. He also worked at Lucas Landscaping and Nursery before really retiring.

Vic served as President, United Methodist Men for the Orlando District, and was awarded the Aloma UMM "Man of the Year" in 2000. He was on the Business Advisory Councils, Computer Programming for the Disable and computer Aided Design for the Disabled, at Valencia Community College, and was on the Computer Systems Advisory boards at Anne Arundel and Catonsville Community colleges in Baltimore. Vic was awarded the "Golden CADD" award by Valencia.

Vic loved to play golf, fish, entertain grandchildren and great grandchildren, and played several years of competitive handball and then non-competitive racquetball. Vic loved languages and studied German, Spanish, and Japanese. Vic survived several Midshipman cruises, five years sea duty (including a collision), two years reserve duty attached to an ASW ready ship, with no great consequences; then, in 1987, while accompanying Nancy on a Missions trip to Mexico, Vic and Nancy and others sank in the Pacific Ocean and were rescued by a fishing boat with three American sailors on board.

Vic is survived by his wife of 65 years, Nancy Fredericksen Fredda, Son, Daniel Fredda, daughter, Amy Nolan; Grandchildren, Kelly (1983) and her husband, James, Katie (1988), Kari (1991), Andrea (1996); and great grandsons, Trenton (2007) and Jordan (2021) and great granddaughter, Mackenzie (2013).

Funeral services will be conducted on Monday, June 17 at St. Andrew's United Methodist Church, 100 St. Andrew's Blvd., Winter Park FL 32792 at 1:00pm. Live-streaming is available on the church’s YouTube channel. The family will receive friends from 11am to time of service also at the church on Monday. Burial with military honors will occur immediately following the service at Chapel Hill Cemetery, 2400 Harrell Road, Orlando, FL 32817.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Florida United Methodist Children's Home, 51 Children's Way, Enterprise, FL 32725, www.residinghope.org or to the church St. Andrew’s United Methodist Church, 100 St. Andrew’s Blvd., Winter Park, Fl 32792