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Irvin “Don” Estes Bryant, beloved husband and father, passed away Wednesday, August 27, 2008, in Fallbrook. He was born May 18, 1917, in Truman, AR. The son of a sharecropper during the Depression years, he left home at the age of 16 and migrated to Detroit, MI.

After a two-year hitch in the Navy, he began his metalworking career at Ford Motor Company. In 1946 he moved to California, where he established Consolidated Aircraft Products, a research and instruments company, and participated in the design and development of the first electromechanical missile count-down system.

His manufa...