This memorial web page was created
in the memory of our loved one

Conrad Charles Jutson.

Conrad Charles Jutson died at age 81 in Fair Oaks, CA on Thursday, April 16, 2009 after a long, adventurous life, with his beloved wife Glenda at his side. Born in Torquay, Devon, U.K., on December 29, 1927, to parents Charles and Chrissie, Conrad grew up during England's battle against a German occupation amid the bombing of its cities. He joined the British Royal Navy at the age of 15 and, after training, graduated as an Electrical Artificer in the Fleet Air Arm Branch. After a year at sea, he volunteered to transfer to the Radio and Radar Branch and following an 18-month course qualified as a Radio Electrical Artificer, responsible for repair and maintenance of naval radio and radar equipment on various bases, ships and airplanes. His last assignment was at an experimental navy base where he first started work on transistor circuit design for test equipment. With this extensive naval electronics training in hand, in December 1958 at the age of 30 Conrad immigrated with his wife and son to the U.S. and, after an interview on a bitterly cold, snowy January day in 1958, began his career in the consumer electronics business as a technician in General Electric's Radio Receiver Department in Utica, NY. He was with GE for eleven years, rising to the position of manager of international planning for marketing RRD products.