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Independent Journal
Thursday, February 14, 1985
Section B, page 4
ROBERT JAMES BARNECUT
A memorial service of Robert James Barnecut of San Anselmo, a noted engineer and longtime Marin resident, will be held at noon Saturday in Stewart Chapel at San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo.
Mr. Barnecut died Monday of cancer at Marin General Hospital. He was 65.
He was born in San Francisco and moved to Marin in 1943.
Mr. Barnecut graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in engineering. He was a licensed and registered mechanical and electrical engineer.
He later returned to the campus as a lecturer at the School of Hospital Administration.
In addition, he often spoke before the American Hospital Administration, Consulting Engineers Association and American Society of Professional Engineers.
An engineer whose career spanned 44 years, Mr. Barnecut served for 20 years as a consulting engineer for the state Bureau of Hospitals.
His duties included structural evaluations for hospitals built throughout the state and administration of the Hill-Burton hospital construction program.
In 1970, he became associated with the San Francisco architectural firm of Stone, Marraccini and Patterson, where he served as coordinator of mechanical and electrical systems on such projects as construction at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and the King Khalid Hospital in Saudi Arabia.
He also served as project director for studies commissioned by the California Energy Commission, Veterans Administration, Army and Stanford University Medical Center.
Mr. Barnecut authored works on the seismic safety of hospitals.
During the past two years, he headed an independent engineering consulting firm providing mechanical and electrical services to healthcare facilities.
Mr. Barnecut was a member of the Association of Western Hospitals, American Association of Hospital Engineers and Earthquake Engineering Research Institute.
He had served since 1973 as chairman of the California Department of Health Building Safety Board.
He served previously as vice chairman of the Marin County Drug Abuse Advisory Board.
Mr. Barnecut is survived by his wife of 43 years, Vivian Curtis Barnecut; a daughter, Nancy L. Simpson of Ridgefield, Conn.; two sons, Robert C. Barnecut of San Rafael and John C. Barnecut of Rohnert Park; five grandchildren, and two brothers, Richard Barnecut and Russell Barnecut.
Inurnment will be private.
His family asked that memorial gifts go to the Hospice of Marin.
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