Kenneth R. Prentiss, a U.S. Postal Service district manager in Salt Lake City, died Thursday, March 17, 1994.
Mr. Prentiss worked for the Postal Service for 23 years, beginning his career in 1970 in the systems research department at the Postal Service headquarters in Washington, D.C.A year later, he was given responsibility for the mechanization section of process engineering and in 1973, he was appointed general manager of the maintenance management division in the Postal Service's northeast region real estate and buildings department.
In 1975, Mr. Prentiss was named general manager of the engineering division and seven years later became the manager and postmaster of the Albany, New York, management sectional center.
He became the field division general manager and postmaster in Albany in 1986. Under his leadership, that division was named the best in the northeast region in 1987.
Mr. Prentiss was assigned to Colorado Springs, Colo., in 1988 to serve as sectional center manager and postmaster. He moved to Utah a short time later to accept the position of division general manager and postmaster for the region.
In 1992, as part of a restructuring of the postal service, Mr. Prentiss was appointed Salt Lake district manager of customers service and sales.
Mr. Prentiss earned a bachelor's and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University and was licensed as a professional engineer in New York and Indiana.
Before joining the postal service, he spent 23 years in the aerospace industry and held several U.S. patents. He served with the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II.
Funeral services were held at 1 p.m. Monday at the North Holladay LDS Stake Center, 4395 S. Albright Drive (2185 East).