Elmer Albert Wolff Jr.

Elmer Albert Wolff Jr., 93, passed away on December 5, 2023. He was born in Dallas, Texas on January 16, 1930 to his loving parents, Mary and Elmer Albert Wolff Sr. Elmer attended the prestigious Southern Methodist University, where he graduated with his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.

He was passionate about his work, and enjoyed a successful career in semiconductor engineering with both Texas Instruments and VLSI spanning almost 60 years.

Mr. Elmer Wolff Jr was involved with the Texas Instruments semiconductor program almost from the very beginning. TI had been eager to enter the newly emerging semiconductor business, and, in 1951, the company paid $25,000 to Western Electric for a transistor license and soon thereafter established the TI Semiconductor Division. Mr. Wolff became the fifth employee of the TI Semiconductor Division, joining in August, 1953, and reporting directly to Mark Sheperd. Prior to joining TI, Elmer had received a BSEE degree for SMU in 1952 and stayed on as a grad student, teaching lab courses until receiving his MSEE in 1953. During his 33 year career with TI, he received 15 U.S. patents related to semiconductor devices and processes, wrote the first TI device data sheets, did extensive device development for the first commercial transistor radio (the Regency TR1), presented a paper at the Wescon show in 1957 on the first diffused silicon power device he had developed, and was the TI representative to the EIA group. From the late 1950s, Mr. Wolff held engineering management positions for TI in Europe, and managed operations in Canada and Central America. He retired in 1986 from corporate engineering, after a 33 year career at TI.

Elmer married the love of his life, Elizabeth Ann Wolff, on June 27, 1956. They were married for 44 beautiful years.

Elmer was happiest spending time with his family, hunting game, and flying model aircraft.

He is survived by his daughter, Mary Wolff Franklin and her husband, James Franklin; grandchildren, Kimmerly Moore Parker and her husband, Jeremy Parker; and Shawn Franklin and his wife, Rhonda Franklin; great-grandchildren, James Moore, Melissa Moore, Kensie Franklin, and Kaylie Franklin; and great-great-grandson, Cyrus Moore Ezell.

A graveside service for Elmer will be held Saturday, December 23, 2023 at 11:00 am at Restland Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests family and friends make a donation in Elmer's memory to the Alzheimer's Association:

https://www.alz.org/