Kenneth K. Gill, former president of a family-owned electrical engineering and construction firm, died March 6 at the Edenwald retirement community in Towson of heart failure. He was 92.
The son of Earl G. Gill Sr., an electrical engineer, and Margaret K. Gill, a homemaker, Kenneth Karfgin Gill was born in Baltimore and raised in the city's Lake Montebello neighborhood.
After graduating from City College in 1940, he planned to study dentistry but switched to engineering. He was studying electrical engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park when World War II broke out.
He was drafted into the Army two days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and was sent to Fort Monmouth, N.J., where he joined the Signal Corps.
Mr. Gill, who served in the Pacific and was discharged at war's end with the rank of lieutenant. He then joined the family business, Gill-Simpson Inc., and earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1956 from Maryland.
He rose from chief estimator to vice president and finally president. Although he became semiretired at 80, Mr. Gill continued coming to work until fully retiring in 2011.
His professional memberships included the National Electrical Contractors Association and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
Mr. Gill lived for years in Northwood and in 1970 moved to Stoneleigh. In recent years, he was a resident of Edenwald.
He was a member of the Country Club of Maryland and Grace United Methodist Church.
His wife of 66 years, the former Irma Jean "Irmie" Holzer, died in 2010.
A memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in the chapel of the Ruck Towson Funeral Home, 1050 York Road.
Mr. Gill is survived by a son, Michael W. Gill of Baltimore; a daughter, Jennifer C. Guy of Clarksville; and five grandchildren. Another son, Kenneth K. Gill Jr., died in 2013.