Sandor "Alex" Lorinczi

As the saying goes, nothing is certain but death and death and taxes. In the case of Alex, they both happened at the same time.

Alex was preceded in death by his wife Mary Jane (Hull) Lorinczi, who passed away in 2023. Alex was born in Flint, Michigan to Brenda Lewis and Sandor Lorinczi. While in Flint, he was on the Bozo the clown show. Bozo would pick a kid from the audience to be his helper. Alex was picked to be Bozo’s helper on that episode. While his younger brother Paul was upset he didn’t get picked, Alex did a bang up job.

He moved to Florida in 1972 with his mother Brenda, step-father Arlyss Olds and brother Michael Olds. They lived in Stuart, Florida where Alex was involved in the Martin County Junior Sheriff program He was a drummer in a gospel band. He took up diving and spent a lot of time at the bathtub beach on Hutchinson Island. Eventually, he became a certified diver. As he would tell you, he barely graduated from Hobe Sound Bible Academy in Hobe Sound, Florida. Despite his academic underachievement, he was an over achiever in life and his work.

Alex was one of the hardest workers his whole life. Alex started working at a young age. He started working at Walgreens on Ocean Blvd at 16. Eventually, he became a butcher at Winn-Dixie at the main store on US1 in Stuart. If you needed your kitchen knives sharpened, he was the guy to get it done. He never cut meat with a dull knife.

He was a volunteer fire fighter in Port Salerno. He lived around the corner from the fire house, so he was always the first one on the truck, when they were called into action. He became a certified diver and was used for diving through the fire department as well. There was a big warehouse fire in Port Salerno. When the news reported on the fire, Alex was seen holding a hose elevated pouring water on a fire. Yet another time he was on TV. His tv appearance on Bozo the Clown paid off.

As he could be a curmudgeon, retail was not a good setting for him. He changed professions by moving to ERK working as a welder building jet engine parts. His dedication to his craft and hard work got him into Pratt & Whitney in West Palm Beach. He ran a laser welding machine at Pratt, as one of two people who could do it at the facility. With all the changes at Pratt, he made sure he got all the certifications he needed to keep working and always found a door open because of his hard work.

Pratt made changes and moved a lot of work up to East Hartford, Connecticut. Alex was not interested in going. Yet, Pratt found a job to keep at West Palm Beach. They did not want to lose him. He moved into the rocket devision. Eventually, he because a rocket inspector. He was final sign off before a rocket was delivered to NASA. As a result, he got to see a couple of space shuttle launches at Cape Canaveral.

Eventually, Pratt sold their rocket division to GenCorps which would then become Aerojet Rocketdyne. They built rockets that were by NASA to send satellites into space. As an inspector, he was the final sign off on anything that went into space. This ended up being he work he continued doing until his retirement. He was proud of the work he did and loved what he did. He thought he was lucky, but we all knew he made his luck with the help of some family and friends. When the doors opened, he walked through them and made the most of his opportunities.

Sadly, he did not get to enjoy his retirement with his wife Mary Jane. His ailing health robbed him of his ability to work on his property as he loved doing. He looked out for everyone in his family with the same focus and dedication he did for his work. He will be missed by his family and loved ones. His direct style and curmudgeon attitude made us all laugh.

He is survived by his mother, Brenda Olds, which he predicted; his brothers, Mike Olds and Paul Lorinczi and wife Tamara; and his niece and nephew, Andrew and Margaret and his wife’s cat, Cassie.

No services will be held at this time.

Alex will be deeply missed by his family and those who knew him.