Loyal Dean Pringle

Dean was the elder of two sons of Loyal M. Pringle and Mary B. (Cool) Pringle. He was born in 1932 in Santa Fe, NM where his father managed a grocery store. Later as his father’s career at what became the Safeway grocery store chain advanced, the family moved many times. Dean graduated from Princeton University in 1953 and then pursued a Master’s Degree in chemical engineering from the University of Colorado in Boulder. He served in the US Army.

He moved to Louisville, KY to work for BF Goodrich Chemical Co. where he was employed in chemical manufacturing for over 40 years. In 1958 he married Mary E. Openhosky of Long Island, NY. Dean and Mary raised five daughters, and now have seven granddaughters and three great-grandchildren. Dean was truly loved for his dedication to his family—parents and brother, his wife, children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren—which was his lifelong vocation.

In Dean’s later years he courageously faced heart disease and inspired all who knew him with his complete recovery from a heart attack and bypass surgery in 1999. He even returned to playing golf after cardiac rehab, and enjoyed taking golf trips to Alabama with friends as before.

In Dean’s last month’s his health was declining, but there were happy family occasions such as a grand-daughter’s wedding in January, his wife’s 80th birthday and their wedding anniversary celebrations, both in April, with the extended family gathered together each time.

He is survived by his wife of 57 years Mary E. Pringle, C. N. M.; his brother, Richard Neal Pringle of Redding, CA; five daughters: Liane (Norris) Brown, Tampa, FL; Pamela Pringle; Betsy (Dr. Eric) Morris, Indianapolis, IN; Jodeane Pringle, PhD (Abdul Tayeb), San Leandro, CA; and Carol Pringle Cain; seven granddaughters: Melanie Wetzel, Kory (Rick) Covington, Kristian Stephens, Dean Anne (Cory) Kloter, Alison Brown, Brenna and Brooke Cain; three great grandchildren: Lee, Kara Mia and Reece Covington; and niece Charlene (Lee) James and nephew Rich (Lisa) Pringle and their children, all of Redding, CA.

Dad often mentioned this favorite passage from Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom: “As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here…Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

A funeral mass will be conducted at the Church of the Epiphany, 914 Old Harrods Creek Road on Friday, May 22, 2015 at 10:30 a.m. The visitation will be on Thursday from 5-8 at Arch L. Heady & Son at Westport Village, 7410 Westport Road.

The family has requested that expression of sympathy be made to the Parkinson’s Foundation or Mended Hearts Chapter 11 Louisville, KY, or Wounded Warriors Project.

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