George D. (Dick) Chandley, formerly a resident of Amherst, NH for 33 years at 3 Upper Flanders Road, passed away on July 15, 2021 at his birth place, Lake Wales, FL, where he lived since 2000, after his retirement from Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc. After completing the Lake

Wales public schools, Dick attended Davidson College 1948-1949 and Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1949-1955, receiving both a BS and an MS in Metallurgy, cum laude.

Mr. Chandley was in the army Ordnance Corps 1955-1957, serving as a second lieutenant, mostly at the Watertown Arsenal in M.A. He continued there as a civilian in charge of the Foundry and Heat Treat Branch for five years, before going to the TRW Metals Division, in Minerva, OH, in 1962 as Chief Engineer. Most of his career was spent with Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc., of Milford, N.H. He was Vice President of Technology for 33 years and, for 14 of those years, also President of Metal Casting Technology, a joint venture company between Hitchiner and General Motors Corp. In his career Mr. Chandley obtained 41 US patents covering various metallurgical processes. Many of these were considered outstanding and were the basis of his receiving three national and international awards. In the field of investment casting, he was considered a world expert, publishing 38 major papers and speaking about his work around the world on numerous occasions, including the American Foundrymen’s Society Silver Anniversary Lecture and the Keynote Address at the Foundry Education Foundation. Production from his processes include things like multipurpose hand tools, golf iron heads, jet engine parts, and automotive parts-made by the millions each year in many countries.

Mr. Chandley was predeceased by his son Wally in 1980 and his wife, Mary Neil Whitmire Chandley in 2019. Is survived by his daughters Cindy Chandley, Bev Chandley, Dottie Kallam and Deborah Umphries. As well as his grandchildren Brindy Chandley North, Matt Chandley, son-in-law Jerry Kallam, grandchildren Jennifer Kallam, Andy Kallam and Cody Rademacher, son-in-law Luke Umphries and grandsons Tim Umphries and Dylan Umphries and 6 great grandchildren. Survived by one sibling Ann Chandley of Tallahassee and family still residing in Polk County Curtis Chandley and Carol Chandley Mondello and their families. Stepchildren are Quinton Whitmire, Valerie Davis, Karen Savage, Michelle Whitmire and Laura Owen with 11 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren.

There will be a memorial service on Oct 2, 2021 at 10:30 AM at Marion Nelson Funeral Home of Lake Wales followed by a reception at Grape Hammock Camp rec hall.

In lieu of flowers, gifts may be made to MIT in memory of George Chandley for the McGovern Neurodegenerative Disorders Fund # 2743130.

Checks may be made payable to MIT and mailed to: Memorial Gifts Office, 600 Memorial Drive Room W98-500, Cambridge, MA 02139

Credit card gifts may be made using the following link: https://giving.mit.edu/george-chandley.