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The Downey Eagle
May 4, 2001 Volume 9 Number 11

Memorial services for Larry Essington
DOWNEY-Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday, May 12, at the Rose Hills Memorial Park 
Hillside Chapel in Whittier for Larry D. Essington, a 38-year Downey resident and a former 30-year 
employee of NAA-Rockwell. He worked on the Apollo program and Space Shuttle, and took pride in 
having worked on the program that placed men on the moon. 
He was 66, born in Keyesport, Illinois, and died at his Downey home April 26. 
He was active in the Downey Junior Athletic Association for many years as a coach and was baseball 
commissioner with DJAA for three years. 
Survivors include his wife, Jacqueline; two sons, Scott Essington of Valencia, Stephen Essington of Long 
Beach; three sisters, Eloise Hodges of Washington, Illinois, Phyllis Wade of Greenville, Illinois, Susan 
Walker of Kokomo, Indiana; three brothers, Conrad Essington of Washington, Illinois, Gerald Essington 
of Greenfield, Illinois, Terry Essington of East Peoria, Illinois; seven grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. 
Arrangements were by the Miller-Mies Mortuary of Downey.