Edgar Allen "Al" Bacon, Jr.

Edgar Allen “Al” Bacon, Jr., of Landenberg, PA, passed away on January 8, 2026, after a long battle with vascular dementia. He was just a few days shy of his 95th birthday.

Al was born to the late Edgar A. Bacon, Sr., and Mary Lucille Copenhaver Bacon in Oakland, CA, on January 12, 1931. He was a 1949 graduate of Fremont High School and received his B.A. in Economics in 1952 and M.A. in Political Science in 1954 from University of California, Berkeley. After spending two years in the US Army stationed in Fort Ord, CA, he was hired in 1956 at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (now Los Alamos National Laboratory) in Los Alamos, NM, as a budget analyst. He worked in various financial management positions at the Lab until he retired in 1991, ending his career as deputy director of the finance division.

Shortly after moving to Los Alamos, Al joined the First United Methodist Church (FUMC) and became a member of the “Young Adults” singles group, where he met many people who became his lifelong friends, including his future wife, Barbara Anne Moore. Al and Barbara were married in 1960 and raised their daughter, Deborah, in Los Alamos. In 1995 they moved to Albuquerque, NM, and in 2013 they moved to Elk Mills, MD. After Barbara’s death in 2020, Al lived with Deborah’s family in Landenberg, PA.

Al took his faith seriously and rarely missed a Sunday service. He ushered regularly and served on many different committees at FUMC. In later years, he was an active member of St. John’s UMC in Albuquerque, NM, and most recently Elkton UMC in Elkton, MD.

Al’s love of geography and travel led to adventures in all 50 US states and many foreign countries throughout his life. He was a very careful planner, and spent hours at his desk organizing extensive summer road trips using paper maps and AAA guides.

A collector at heart, he began collecting license plates out of junk yards as a boy. Years later, he enjoyed the hunt of finding license plates in antique stores before he discovered and joined the Automobile License Plate Collectors’ Association (ALPCA). He attended many national and regional ALPCA license plate meets across the country over the last 20 years. He also collected stamps and National Geographic magazines.

He enjoyed reading mysteries, biographies, and travel stories and was also a good writer. As editor of his high school newspaper his senior year, he made good use of his last name in his column called “Out of the Frying Pan.” Much of his writing in later years took the form of letters to friends and family, always in perfect cursive. He played a mean game of Scrabble, watched Lawrence Welk and The Waltons religiously, and never passed up a McDonald’s Big Mac or a trip to Furr’s Cafeteria.

We will remember Al as a quiet, kind, and devoted husband, father, and grandfather who lived out his faith in his daily life.

Al is survived by his daughter, Deborah Ingram, son-in-law, Brian, and grandsons, Benjamin and Joseph, of Landenberg, PA, and his sister, Betty Huyck, of Concord, CA. He was preceded in death by his parents and his wife, Barbara.

Interment at Guaje Pines Cemetery in Los Alamos, NM, will occur at a later date.

Words of remembrance and condolences can be made at www.MeyersFH.com

Services entrusted to Szpindor-Meyers Funeral Home.