Roy Satchell

Roy Charles Satchell departed for the 19th tee on 15 July 2009 from his home in Sun City, Arizona. He lived his life large, with both gusto and graciousness. Born in 1929 to Homer and Anna Satchell in Bridgeport, Nebraska, he found the love of his life in Cheyenne, Wyoming and married her in 1949. He began his career in 1950 as an accountant at a small oil company located in Thermopolis, Wyoming. He retired in 1988 as chief executive of a salt company headquartered in St. Clair, Michigan. In between he earned his MBA at the Harvard Business School amazingly, without first having an undergraduate degree, worked in treasury and finance for three different oil and gas companies, taught business courses at Harvard, Bucknell, and the University of Wyoming, co-founded a tool company, bought a miniature airplane engine and remote guidance system company, and served in a variety of senior executive positions for two brewing companies and a NY corporate conglomerate, whose European operations he headed for two years while living in Brussels, Belgium. Somewhere in there he also became an accomplished tennis player and golf addict, and raised five children with his high school sweetheart. All told, Roy and his family lived in twenty cities in a dozen states and two countries. In his later years,