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January 12, 2001
- Hewlett died of heart failure in Palo Alto, California on January 12, 2001 (aged 87), and was interred at Los Gatos Memorial Park, San Jose, California.
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Jan 13, 2001 · William Redington Hewlett, the electrical engineer who in 1938 with David Packard pulled together $538 to set up a tiny electronics company in a Palo Alto, Calif., garage that ultimately led...
Hewlett married Flora Lamson in 1939, and had 5 children with her: Eleanor, Walter, James, William and Mary. They had 12 grandchildren. His wife died in 1977. In 1978, Hewlett married Rosemary Kopmeier Bradford. He was a committed conservationist and avid outdoorsman.
It was also the valley’s first major start-up company, and one of its most successful, ranking at Hewlett’s death as the nation’s thirteenth largest business, with annual sales of nearly $50 billion and some ninety thousand employees in 120 countries.
The Living Room Years. In 1966, after a decade of exploring alternative vehicles for philanthropy, Bill Hewlett, at the age of 53, formed the foundation. The founding board members were Bill, Flora, and their eldest son Walter, a 22-year-old Harvard graduate who planned to pursue further studies at Stanford University.
HEWLETT, William Redington ("Bill")(b. 20 May 1913 in Ann Arbor, Michigan; d. 12 January 2001 in Palo Alto, California), and David PACKARD (b. 7 September 1912 in Pueblo, Colorado; d. 26 March 1996 in Stanford, California), electronics engineers, inventors, and businessmen who helped build Hewlett-Packard into one of the world's largest ...
Jan 12, 2001 · William Hewlett, the affable engineer who co-founded Silicon Valley electronics pioneer Hewlett-Packard Co. and helped guide it into the computer age, died Friday. He was 87. Hewlett, who...
William Redington Hewlett May 20, 1913-January 12, 2001 By Robert J. Scully and Marlan O. Scully. W ILLIAM REDINGTON HEWLETT PASSED away on January 12, 2001, endowing that day with a national significance. The Silicon Valley miracle was in large part fostered by William Hewlett and David Packard. Indeed, the ideas and ideals of the Hewlett ...
