Jules C Domingue

JC grew up on his parent’s dairy farm in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, speaking only Cajun French until learning English in grade school. JC was an honor graduate of Scott High School and entered Southwestern Louisiana Institute at age 17. His education was interrupted in 1944 when he enlisted in the Navy. His first Pacific tour took him to New Caledonia, Guadalcanal, Eniwetok, and the invasion of Okinawa on Easter Sunday, 1945. He left the Navy in 1946 after making several voyages returning soldiers, sailors, and marines stateside.

Following WWII, JC returned to SLI to complete his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering. It was here that he met Helen Elizabeth Wainwright of Raceland, Louisiana. They married on August 18, 1947. Their life together took them to Biloxi, Mississippi, Fort Huachuca, Arizona, and Alexandria, Virginia before finally retiring to Austin, Texas.

As a career civil service employee for the Department of Defense, JC initially worked on anti-aircraft radar development, then computerized command information systems. JC’s proudest accomplishments came through heading development of missile guidance and satellite communications systems, being selected as Technical Director of Army Computer Systems, and directing the refresh of the Pentagon Communications Systems. While stationed in the Washington, D.C. area, he earned a Masters degree in Systems Management from the University of Southern California.

JC’s other activities included coaching Little League baseball and he will be remembered by many women who learned valuable life lessons through his many years of coaching and leading a fledgling girls softball association in Fairfax County, Virginia. He took great pride in his team’s successes, and the young women he coached.

JC’s wife of sixty-four years passed from this world in 2011. He is survived by their three children; Charles, Richard, and Rebecca; two grandchildren, Kristin and Jules; two great grandchildren, Alyssa and Evan; and his one remaining sibling, Ruby. He will join his brother, Willie, and sister, Georgia, in heaven.