Edmund A. Steinbock, Jr.,
84, of Louisville, Kentucky passed away Wednesday, May 24, 2006.
A Louisville native, Mr. Steinbock was a Mechanical Engineering graduate of the University of Louisville Speed Scientific School. He served as a naval officer in the South Pacific during World War II and joined the family business, the Whip Mix Corporation, after the war ended.
As Whip Mix president or chairman for over fifty years, he led the corporation into a variety of new dental product areas including phosphate casting investments, articulators, mixing equipment and other laboratory equipment. He received numerous patents for his innovations in vacuum mixing and investing equipment, a casting machine, a burnout furnace and related equipment. The Corporation received the President’s E & E-Star award for excellence in exporting and the Company continues to make regular shipments to customers in over eighty countries around the globe.
He was always quick to attribute the Company’s success to the efforts and creativity of the team members of Whip Mix. But it was the open culture he nurtured that allowed others the independence to achieve within their areas of expertise and be recognized for their successes.
A life-long supporter of the Boy Scout movement, he believed strongly in the values that they instilled in America’s youth. He received the Council’s President’s Award in the 1960’s for his volunteer work and all five of his sons earned the Eagle Scout Award.
Ed is survived by his wife of sixty years, Louise Funk Steinbock; his sister, Elizabeth Mills (Tony) of Louisville; seven children, Mary Lynn Bunger, E. Andrew Steinbock (Susanne), Allen F. Steinbock (Sherry), Dr. R. Ted Steinbock (Vivienne), David J. Steinbock (Barbara), Dr. Greg S. Steinbock (Beth) and Anne Steinbock Smith (Jeff), all living in Louisville. He is also survived by twenty-one grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.