Joseph Harold Senne Jr., 97, of San Diego passed away on December 20, 2016 under the wonderful care of Sharp Hospice. Joe, born in St. Louis on November 9, 1919 to Joseph H. Senne Sr. and Lillian Pearl Bock Senne was the third child of total of four. He was preceded in death by his parents, a brother, John Edmund, a sister, Celia Lou Senne Kutz, and his beloved wife, Jeanne Sylva Larkin Senne, whom he married on April 12, 1946. He is survived by his only daughter, Jill Senne Giesick, her husband, Robert Giesick, and granddaughter Katie Giesick, as well as his younger sister, Susanne (Penny) Tyrrell, of St. Petersburg Fla. Joe was a devout Christian and grew up Presbyterian. In all the places he lived he always found a church home. He served as a Deacon, as a Trustee and then as an Elder. He was currently attending the Point Loma Community Presbyterian Church in San Diego, California. After only two years of college at Missouri School of Mines (now Missouri University of Science and Technology), Joe (1940 to 1942) worked as an assistant construction engineer in St. Louis at the Laclede Christy Clay Product Co. A World War II veteran, he enlisted in the SEABEES (U.S. Naval Construction Battalion) in 1943 and spent the next three years as a surveyor in building roads & airstrips on various islands across the West Pacific Ocean. He was on Okinawa at the time the war ended. After the war, he returned to St. Louis, Missouri and was discharged on January 5, 1946. He completed his bachelor's degree in civil engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. While at the university, he married Jeanne on April 12, 1946, a marriage that lasted for 62 years. After completing his undergraduate degree he got an offer to teach at Missouri S & T in Rolla, Missouri, and to work on a master's degree. He earned his master's degree in civil engineering in 1951 and, left Rolla in 1954 to work on his PhD in structural engineering at Iowa State University. While there, he got involved in tracking orbiting satellites as there was not a tracking network setup at that time. This was his first real exposure to computer programming. After he received his PhD in 1961, he returned to Missouri S&T two years later as a faculty member of the Civil Engineering Department. During the summers from 1963 to the early seventies, he worked for Naval Electronics Lab (now SPAWAR) in San Diego working on orbital mechanics for the Radio Tropospheric Propagation Group. Joe became Department Chair of Civil Engineering at Missouri S&T in 1965 and accumulated many awards and honors along the way. After 37 years in the academic area (including 20 years as Civil Engineering Department chairman) he decided to retire in 1985. Joe's interest in astronomy also lead him into other projects. In the late 1960's he got involved in predicting and observing "lunar grazing occultations", where the moon apparently grazes a star. He became a member of IOTA (International Occultation Timing Association), and until 2012, he was computing predictions for the central USA, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. After Jeanne's death in 2008, he occupied himself with his hobbies of astronomy, walking, and visiting friends. In 2012, he accepted the offer from his daughter and her husband to come and live with them in San Diego, CA. A memorial service celebrating his life will be held in the chapel at Pt. Loma Community Presbyterian Church, 2128 Chatsworth Blvd., San Diego, California, on January 11, 2017, at 1:30 PM. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to "Joseph Senne Academy of CE Faculty Achievement Award" by going to the link http://bit.ly/2im86nE and selecting "Designations (select one)" or by contacting Dr. Joel Burken, Dept. of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering directly at burken@mst.edu