Leslie Martin Davidson of Livingston died on Monday, December 23, at the Daughters of Israel care facility in West Orange.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Mr. Davidson graduated from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and briefly served with the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. He had lived in Livingston since 1964.
Mr. Davidson was a physicist with the Bendix Aviation Corporation, where his projects included the design of the Apollo lunar landing module. He also worked for Cessna and the ITT Corporation.
He gave lectures and taught chess and ESL (English as a Second Language) at the Livingston Library, and expanded the internal Livingston High School TV station to broadcast TV on channel 34. He also volunteered at Saint Barnabas Medical Center and in the Reading to Children program at Collins School.
Surviving are his wife of 65 years, Paula (Katzman); his children, Lynn Davidson, Honey (David) Barry, Harris (Diane), and Ronald (Iwona); five grandchildren; his brother, Louis (Mary); and a nephew.
Services were held on Thursday, December 26, at the Bernheim-Apter-Kreitzman Suburban Funeral Chapel, followed by burial at Old Montefiore Cemetery in Queens, New York.
Livingston, the second-largest town in Essex County, was founded when the state legislature combined portions of two farming villages, Caldwell and Springfield, and issued the new Township of Livingston a state charter on Feb. 5, 1813.
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