EARL VAN REENAN

07/22/1929 - 03/28/2023

Earl Van Reenan went to be with the Lord on Tuesday, March 29, 2023. He was 94. He is survived by his wife Patricia, son Dana and daughters Amy Daze and Cynthia Lincoln, grandson Joshua Eysenbach, granddaughter Elizabeth Eysenbach Kanté, great grandsons Silas Eysenbach, Oscar Eysenbach and Milo Kanté, and great granddaughter Zelda Eysenbach.

Earl graduated with a Master’s in Geological Engineering from the U of Minnesota in 1952. He served in the army as a geodetic surveyor in the Alaskan Arctic. He met his wife Patricia in 1956 and they were married in 1958. They resided in Havana, Cuba until 1959. Earl worked with E.G.&G in Boston and Houston as Chief Geophysicist until 1970 when he formed his own successful geophysical engineering company, Van Reenan International, Inc.

Earl’s work life was interesting: the English Channel Tunnel; projects with Jacques Ives Cousteau; getting kidnapped in Venezuela and then rescued by Venezuelan soldiers; shipwrecked three times. He worked on fascinating geophysical projects in the U.S. and Canadian Arctic, Greenland, Middle East, Far East, Africa, Central and South America, most of the oceans and many of the rivers in the world. He was a prolific author of technical papers published in geophysical and physics journals, lectured at MIT and Yale Universities and gave talks at many professional geophysical and engineering societies in New England, Washington D.C. and Houston.

For the last 35 years, he and Patricia have enjoyed living on Lake Conroe, waterskiing, fishing, canoeing, playing with grandkids and loving life and each other. Earl’s professional life was characterized by honesty, integrity and hard work, and his personal life was punctuated by his faith in Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior.

A Celebration of Life service will be held Saturday, April

15, 2023 at Lakeside Bible Church in Montgomery, TX.