Birth: 1944 Death: 2024 Born in Vancouver, Washington; Parents: Michael Patrick Moriarty of County Kerry, Ireland and Eleanor Macikas of Chicago, IL; He passed away at home after a brief illness surrounded by family and friends.Gene was pre-deceased by his parents, his brothers Michael (Louise), Donald, Anthony and his sister Mary Catherine. He is survived by his wife, Frances Guerrero, daughter Avelina, son Martin and granddaughter Lily, his sisters Eleanor (Vince), Karen and Christine; his sisters-in-law Allenda, Gloria, Dolores (Greg), Sylvia (Jorge); and numerous nieces and nephews.
He died at home with Fran, his beloved wife of 33 years, by his side holding his hand. Gene’s first job at 5 years old, was a newspaper route with his brother and friend Tommy Griffin, which he held for at least 6 years. The young lads delivered newspapers with diligence and tenacity, even through the harsh Chicago winters! Following in the footsteps of his older brother Michael “Butch,” he received his undergraduate and Ph.
D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Illinois Institute of Technology. His first engineering job, at McDonnell Douglas in Southern California, was developing control systems for the moon landing.
He taught for many years in the Electrical Engineering Department at San Jose State University, where he was a tenured professor from 1975 until his retirement in 2017. His real passion and life-long study was philosophy. .