Carroll Pleasance passed peacefully into the arms of his Saviour on Easter Sunday afternoon. He was preceded in death by Ila Deanne, his wife of 61 years, also on a Sunday, in 2012.

Carroll was born in Wenatchee, grew up in Seattle, graduated from the University of Washington as an engineer and went on to pursue a master’s degree in nuclear engineering. After his marriage in 1951, and the birth of their only son Randy in 1954, he started a 36-year career with General Electric, which took him to Richland and the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

Barred from leaving the country because of his Q-type security clearance, he served his country by joining the Navy Reserve and teaching electronics to sailors. His active duty was in submarines, operating radar and sonar.

Carroll relocated to Massachusetts in 1959 to be part of a GE design team for a line of process-control instrumentation. He was advanced to a sales position in Seattle in 1962. Eleven years later, he was made sales manager in California and completed his career with GE in 1987, having risen to the upper 1 percent of management.

He was a Gideon, distributing Bibles every Monday morning at the local Induction Center in Oakland, Calif.

He also joined his son’s contracting company as chairman of the board and took on the responsibility of union negotiations and director of all financial matters.

After nearly 20 years, he and his wife retired, again, moving to Oak Harbor. He is survived by his son and a nice collection of classic cars.

There will be a service in his honor at 2:30 p.m. May 1 at the First Reformed Church in Oak Harbor. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you make a donation in Carroll’s name to The Gideons International.