Alvin B. Harper Jr., designed buildings

Alvin B. Harper Jr., 88, passed away Monday, Oct. 1, 2018. 

He was born in Knoxville Tenn., July 2, 1930, to Alvin Brock Harper and Nannie Brooks Mathews.  He graduated from the University of Tennessee where he played drums in the university band.  Mr. Harper is a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War.  After his military service he graduated from the Parsons School of Design in New York City.  He worked for the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., where, as the chief of facility design unit, he oversaw the design and construction of the present IMF building in Washington.  He later retired to Lewes, with his late wife Rose Mary.  His interests included a love of antiques, his model trains and his antique automobiles.  

Mr. Harper is survived by his current wife of eight years, Regina Pesador Harper; his cousins Robert, June and Paul Hunnicutt of Colorado, and Michael Hunnicutt of Washington D.C.; sister-in-law Sylvia Harper; and niece Lisa Harper of California.

Graveside services will be held 9 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 10, at the Greenwood Cemetery in Knoxville.  In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to the Delaware Hospice Memorial Gifts.  

Gentry Griffey Funeral Chapel, Knoxville is honored to serve the Harper Family and invites you to view and sign the online registry at www.gentrygriffey.com.