Stanley Austin Gudmundsen

Stanley Austin Gudmundsen was born in 1900 at Lehi, Utah. He pursued an education in mechanical engineering and was in the first class at Brigham Young University to graduate in that discipline. He also attended the University of Utah. His obituary in the Salt Lake Tribune lists his accomplishments.

Professionally he associated with the American Institute of Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers and the American Society of Lubrication Engineers, both of which denote his comprehension for the work of Kennecott Copper Mining here in Utah, for which he had been a master mechanic and was widely known. He had served as chairman of the American Society for Metals.

Stanley is reported to have brought the first diesel-electric locomotives to the Kennecott mines, and had worked with track shifters and track car designs. Those of us who, as children visiting that remarkable open mine may well have marveled at Stanley’s work (in addition to those gigantic tires on earth moving equipment).

Stanley married Bertha West (1902 – 1980) in 1922. They were parents of two.

Stanley passed away in Salt Lake City I 1975 after an illness. He was a member of the LDS Church, and his services were held in the Holladay 6^th Ward prior to internment at the Salt Lake City Cemetery.