Ex-City Engineer E. F. Koenig Dies
Edward F. Koenig, chief engineer for the original 3,400-acre park that was to evolve into the city of Lakewood in the 1950s and who also helped design the nation’s longest runway at Edwards Air Force Base, died Thursday in Concord, Mass.
He was 84 and left his Engineering Service Corp. in Los Angeles to move to Concord after his son Allen was named president of Boston’s Emerson College.
A 1925 graduate of USC, Koenig was a city engineer for Los Angeles before forming his own concern.
His other projects involved development of 7,000 acres on the Palos Verdes Peninsula and preliminary work on the London freeway system. In 1961, he was elected president of the Civil Engineering and Land Surveyors Assn. of California.
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