OBITUARY

Joseph Mel Kassuba

April 17, 1938–July 8 2024

Joe Kassaba, also known as "Joe" or "Papa Joe."

Joe married Bette Schick on June 27, 1959. In 1965 Joe began his 35-year career as an aerospace engineer at Boeing.

His first accomplishment at Boeing was to design the vacancy/no vacancy mechanism on the bathroom door of the 707, and adopted by all planes Boeing manufactured. He designed the electric cir...