Frickey

Edward L. Frickey Sr., a Purdue professor emeritus of 4-H youth development and founder of the Imagination Station children’s museum in Lafayette, died May 4.

Frickey, 79, was a 4-H Extension specialist and faculty member from 1966 to 1991. He was the Indiana 4-H state leader for 10 years. In 1975, he moved out of administrative responsibilities but remained on the state 4-H staff as a professor and leader for 4-H projects and statewide events.

He initiated the 4-H aerospace project and was the first coordinator of a campuswide committee that planned and implemented the Purdue Aerospace Institute in 1990. After retiring, he remained very active in the 4-H aerospace program.

Before joining the faculty at Purdue, he had been a secondary teacher, coach and administrator in Kansas.

He married Phyllis E. McKnaught on June 22, 1946, in Topeka. She died Jan. 1, 2004.