Hilton Wayne Ginn's Obituary
GINN, HILTON WAYNE , was given the gift of life on March 12, 1941 in Tylertown, Mississippi and the gift of eternal life on June 2, 2010. He was born March 12, 1941 in Tylertown, Mississippi. Wayne attended schools at Orange Grove, and Gulfport, Mississippi and Nocatee, Florida. He received an Associates in Art degree from Pearl River Junior College. He earned degrees in Civil Engineering from Mississippi State University in 1965 and 1966. His engineering career began after graduation with Michael Baker Engineers and Smith and Sanders Engineering in Jackson, Mississippi. He relocated to Dallas in 1970 as an employee of the Environmental Protection Agency where as Chief of Operation and Maintenance Section, he administered a five-state regional operation and maintenance program for federally funded wastewater treatment facilities. His career continued to progress to the Ginn, Inc. Consulting Engineers. He was able to draft and oversee projects that many other engineers only dream of achieving. His firm acted as consulting engineers to Addison, Texas when it was a “one stoplight town” and he served many years as its City Engineer as it developed into a thriving North Dallas metropolis and became the Town of Addison. He served in the same capacity to Coppell and several other cities in the North Texas area. His influence is quietly seen, felt and ingrained in the North Dallas to the advantage and enjoyment of all its citizens. He is Past President of the Preston Trail Chapter of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers, which honored him in 1976 as “Young Engineer of the Year”. In 1974, the Trinity River Authority hired him to undertake the largest Infiltration/Inflow analysis attempted at that time. This study included approximately one hundred miles of wastewater interceptor sewers and the accompanying waste water treatment facilities, encompassing eleven major cities, and approximately fourteen hundred miles of collection line with an additional sixteen hundred miles of house laterals. To complete the study, an entirely new methodology of analysis had to be developed which evolved into a four-phase program that was recorded in a fourteen hundred page manuscript and present to the T.R.A. This document successfully gathered necessary data to guarantee the continued growth of the Dallas area. Services will be held at 11:00AM, Saturday, June 5, 2010 at Canyon Creek Baptist Church. Visitation will be held from 6:00PM – 8:00PM, Friday, June 4, 2010 at Restland Funeral Home.
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