Warren Everett Carlson, age 94, of Gaithersburg, Md., passed away April 18, 2016. Born on September 2, 1921 Warren grew up in Duluth Minnesota. In 1939 he joined the CCC’s at Camp Toftee where he assisted a surveyor in drafting a map of Lake Superior. Inspired by his CCC experience, he joined the US National Geodetic Survey in 1941 as a draftsman and later cartographer.

Warren was a member of the “Greatest Generation”.  He joined the Marines in The Pacific Theater in 1943 and participated in expeditions involving enemy engagements and skirmishes during combat operations in the Battle for Okinawa at Yae-Take and Sugar Loaf Hill. Subsequently he served in the liberation of Tsingtao China until 1946.

After the war he returned to Washington DC and the US National Geodetic Survey. There, Warren met and married Doris Joanne Kerst (deceased). After retirement in 1976 he expanded his part time hobby of amateur radio to a full time passion of collecting and restoring antique radios, phonographs and clocks.

Warren was a loving father to Joanne Caine, Paul Carlson (deceased) and Janet Carlson as well as grandchildren Breck Caine and Amy Caine and three great grandchildren Julia, Paige and Jamie Caine.

Services will be held 3:30 p.m. Friday, April 22, at Molesworth-Williams P.A. Funeral Home, 26401 Ridge Road, Damascus, Maryland 20872.  Interment will be in Fort Lincoln Cemetery, Brentwood, Maryland at a later date. 

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