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In Memory    = 3D""
Roy H. Minnick
Born on = November 7, 1937,=20 and passed on September 29, 2004. Survived by: Jean, his wife of = 38 1/2=20 years; daughters Kim Williams and Nancy Williams; and three = grandchildren.=20 Roy was the devoted "Papa" to Stephen, Jessica, and William and = leaves=20 numerous friends and colleagues. Memorial service will be held at = 11:00=20 am, Saturday, November 13th, at The Sterling Hotel, 1300 H Street = in=20 Sacramento, California. In lieu of flowers, the family requests = that any=20 donations be made in his memory to: Survey Technology Program at=20 Sacramento City College; California Foundation for Land Surveying=20 Education (CFLSE) 13681 Newport Ave. Ste. 8 Tustin, Ca.=20 92780-7815.

Since September 1994, as the waterways and = boundary=20 specialist, Roy consulted with First American underwriting staff = on=20 matters relating to tidelands, waterways, land survey matters in = United=20 States, Canada, Mexico, and other countries served by the Company. = Recently, the duties had expanded to provide an array of = consulting=20 services involving land boundary determination and location, = review and=20 preparation of land descriptions, and facilitating title and = boundary=20 settlements.

Between 1992 and 1994, he was in private = practice=20 consulting on land survey problems for private = clients.

From 1962=20 to 1992 Roy was employed principally by the State Lands Commission = in=20 Sacramento. Between 1988 and 1992 he served as the Supervisor of = the=20 Commission's Land Location and Boundary Section.

Roy had = been a=20 surveyor since 1955, in both office and field. He had been a = property=20 boundary surveyor most of that time, and during the last 30 years = has=20 specialized in land title and boundary problems, many along=20 waterways.

Courts had accepted Roy as an expert Land = Surveyor a=20 number of times, and he had frequently acted as a consultant in = boundary=20 research.

Roy was founder and chairman of the Survey = Technology=20 Program at Sacramento City College and in that capacity developed = and=20 taught courses and seminars in various aspects of = surveying.

The=20 American Congress on Surveying and Mapping had accepted papers a = number of=20 times for presentation at the national convention. He had also = given=20 hundreds of speeches and seminars throughout the United States. He = had=20 written a number of articles and reviews for professional = journals, and=20 was the founding chairman of the editorial review board for the = American=20 Congress on Surveying and Mapping and a past member of the = editorial=20 review board for The American Cartographer.

Over a period = of years=20 Roy assisted in the preparation of examinations for Land Surveyor = and=20 Land-Surveyor-in-Training for the National Council of Engineering=20 Examiners and the California State Board of Registration for Civil = Engineers and Land Surveyors.

Roy was the author of = "Ownership,=20 Title, and Boundaries" (1975, 1987), "Water Boundaries for = Surveyors in=20 California" (2nd edition, 2000) and "Land Surveyor Test Training = Manual"=20 (1981). He also co-authored "Advanced Land Descriptions" and = contributed=20 to "Standard Handbook for Civil Engineers." In addition to = co-editing and=20 authoring several chapters of "Surveying Handbook," Roy edited = more than=20 twenty other books in surveying and survey-related subject areas. = He had=20 also published a number of articles in professional = journals.

Roy=20 was licensed to survey in three states and had many active = memberships in=20 Societies and Associations.
Published in = the=20 Sacramento Bee from 10/30/2004 - 10/31/2004.