Benny W. Tuley left this world on December 28, 2020. Born on April 5, 1950, Ben is survived by his sister, Donna Love; Terry McArdle, widower of niece, Emily McArdle; great-nephew, Patrick McArdle; and great-nieces, Caitlyn and Riley McArdle.
He was preceded in death by his parents, a younger brother, David, and his beloved niece, Emily Sim McArdle.
Ben had a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology.
Ben was a Captain in the United States Air Force retiring after 25 years of service which included three tours in Vietnam, a year in the Republic of Korea and several years in England. Ben was a recipient of the Bronze Star Medal, The Air Force Commendation Medal and two of The Meritorious Service Medals.
After his retirement from the Air Force, Ben became a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the field of Aerospace Quality Management Systems.
In his final career position at The Boeing Company, Ben was known as the ‘Eternal Optomist’ and was always in pursuit of achieving goals and objectives in the most positive way possible. Ben was the Quality Management Representative for Aviall Services, Inc., now Boeing Distribution Inc. In his capacity Ben was responsible for the quality processes at sites including Australia, the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Asia. Ben was always willing to lend a hand and is dearly missed by his colleagues across the globe.
Prior to The Boeing Company, Ben was the Aerospace Subject Matter Expert for SAI Global in North America. At SAI Global, Ben developed the AS9100 Internal Auditor Course and was responsible for maintaining all SAI Global Aerospace courses to ensure that they were kept current. In addition to being a popular public course instructor, Ben worked on-site with numerous major Aerospace companies such as Northrop Grumman, Pratt & Whitney and Lockheed Martin. At SAI Global, Ben participated in over 125 registrar audits and was the lead auditor on over 25 certification audits. Including the audits he did privately for customers, the total number of audits accomplished was well over 200.
At this time, there will not be a public service. For anyone wishing to contact the family, please send an email to [email protected]. The family has requested that for anyone wishing to honor Ben’s memory donations can be made to the Gary Sinise Foundation, which is devoted to helping our military veterans, in Memory of Captain Benny W. Tuley, USAF, Ret. https://www.garysinisefoundation.org/donate/.
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