Published: November 24, 2009 04:44 pm      

Stanley M. Shartle of Avon

Nov. 20, 2009

Stanley M. Shartle of Avon died Nov. 20 at Brownsburg Meadows. He was 87.

Born Sept. 27, 1922, in Brazil, he was the son of Arthur T. and Mildred Musgrave Shartle. He married Anna Lee Mantle and she preceded him in death in 1990.  

Mr. Shartle attended Purdue University from 1947-50 and had other private vocational study at the college level in mathematics, civil engineering, and management. He was Registered Land Surveyor No. 3431 since April 1945, Registered Professional Engineer No. 6208 since about 1950, and has been registered as a land surveyor in Indiana longer than all the other registrants.

Following brief employment in the Tool Design Department of the Allison Division of General Motors, Plant 3, Indianapolis, he became chief deputy surveyor of Hendricks County 1941-42 and 1944-50, except during the fall of 1945 when he conducted property surveys in Chicago for the National Survey Service.

During World War II, from 1942-44, Mr. Shartle engaged in restricted and confidential navigational intelligence in the Pacific Theater as the assistant hydrographer of the 14th Naval District, U.S. Navy, at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. He served as county surveyor and county highway engineer at Danville 1950-54; charter member, ex officio member, and executive secretary of the Hendricks County Area Plan Commission, 1951-54; private engineering and surveying practice 1944-54; staff engineer, Indiana Toll Road Commission 1954-61; chief engineer, Division of Land Acquisition, Indiana State Highway Commission 1961-75; member, Indiana State Highway Commission’s Indiana-Kentucky Boundary Committee 1965-67; member, Indiana State Highway Commission’s Consulting Engineers Selection Committee 1965-75; part-time lecturer of Indiana State Highway Commission construction personnel at Purdue University 1969-74; Hendricks County Highway Engineer 1975-77; owner Shartle Engineering 1977-89, part-time right-of-way engineering consultant to Gannett Fleming Transportation Engineers, Inc., Indianapolis 1983-89; consultant on survey matters for Parsons, Cunningham and Shartle Engineers, Inc. from 1989 onward.  

Mr. Shartle served as president, Indiana Toll Road Commission Employees Association 1959-60; life member, American Congress on Surveying and Mapping; charter member, National Society of Professional Land Surveyors; charter member (Board of Directors 1979), Indiana Society of Professional Land Surveyors; Quarter Century Club Member, National Genealogical Society. He was honored in 1995 by the International Right of Way Association for being a founder and charter member of Chapter 10. 

Mr. Shartle earned the Outstanding Contribution Award of the Hendricks County Soil and Water Conservation District in 1976. The Hendricks County Board of Commissioners honored him at a surprise reception by proclaiming Sept. 22, 1997, Stanley Shartle Day for his long service to the county.

Survivors include his son Randy (Mary K.) Shartle of Brownsburg and a grandson Ryan F. (Charise) Shartle.

Calling was Monday at Baker Funeral Home in Danville. Interment was in Danville South Cemetery.

Online condolences may be made at www.bakerfuneralservice.com