Longtime Malibu resident and former Hughes Aircraft vice president, Paul S. Visher, died at his home in Cannon Beach, Ore. on Jan. 16. He was 80.
Visher, a graduate chemist from the University of Indiana, served in the U.S. Navy during World War II as a research chemist and radar specialist, ultimately becoming an electronics officer staff commander in the Pacific Submarine Fleet.
After the war, Visher attended Yale Law School and worked as a lawyer in San Francisco. In 1952, after recovering from a serious case of tuberculosis, he bought and worked a cattle ranch on the Klamath River in Hornbrook, Calif., and married Margot Landon.
In 1956, Visher moved to Los Angeles where he soon built and settled into a home in Malibu, and began a 31-year career at Hughes Aircraft Company.
Shortly after retiring in 1987, the Vishers moved to the Oregon Coast where Paul remained active, serving on various regional economics and technical development boards and as the tsunami coordinator for Clatsop County. He received a NOAA award for the pioneering inundation studies he conducted with Portland state geologists.
Visher is survived by his wife, Margot, their four married children and 14 grandchildren.