Charlotte Ann Thomas Striebel

Charlotte Striebel picture 998e (2)Charlotte Ann Thomas Striebel, 84, a resident of Richmond, CA, passed away on Wednesday, March 12, 2014. Charlotte was born on July 30, 1929 in Columbus, OH. She was a former resident of San Mateo, CA, Chicago, IL, St. Paul, MN, Bellarie, MI and South Padre Island, TX.

As a statistician in 1962, with a Doctorate in Mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley, Charlotte Striebel  developed the initial workings of GPS, global positioning satellites while at Lockheed Missiles and Space Company in Sunnyvale, CA  while analyzing satellite tracking data and reliability of the Polaris Missile and Gemini space program manned space capsule reentry and recovery.

Charlotte was a professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago for two years before joining the University of Minnesota as Associate Professor . Her research involved the Optimal Control of Discrete Time of Stochastic Systems. In her spare time, Charlotte earned a law degree from the U of M and analyzed pay equity statistical models for equal pay for women from 1968 through 1994. This culminated in a statistical method for determination of local government compliance. She contributed statistical interpretation to the Faculty Advisory Committee for Women in an approved consent decree; Rajender v. University of Minnesota.

Charlotte retired after 39 years of teaching and research to 18 years of boardsailing in South Padre Island, TX, spending every summer in Bellaire, MI at the family compound. She is survived by her children, Kathryn Ann Striebel  (Jeffery Weaver) and Daniel Frederick Striebel (Kimberly Striebel); grandchildren, Dustin Thomas Striebel, Tyson Daniel Striebel, Samuel Jesse Weaver; and brother, Taelen Thomas. She was preceded in death by her twin sister Virginia Jane Van Stolk.

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