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Philip Philippidis Developer of Remote Meter Reading Devices, Passes Away.
Posted on Sunday, January 22 @ 19:10:15 EST by jfbailey
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WPCNR OBITUARY. January 22, 2006: Philip A. Philippidis of Kew Gardens, N.Y., a retired electrical engineer and 45-year veteran of Con Edison Inc., died Jan. 18 at the Tropicana Casino and Resort in Atlantic City, N.J., where he was on vacation.
He was 73.
Mr. Philippidis was born Nov. 6, 1932, in Alexandria, Egypt, to Adamantios and Marie Arathymos Philippidis. The family owned and operated the Plaza movie theater in Alexandria, which specialized in showing first-run American films, as part of a Greek community that flourished in Alexandria for
centuries till the Egyptian Revolution of the 1950s.
He emigrated to the United States in 1959, living briefly in the Bronx and later Astoria, Queens, before moving to Kew Gardens in 1981.
From 1959 until he retired in 2004, Mr. Philippidis held a series of electrical engineering positions at Con Edison’s headquarters in New York City. During that time, Mr. Philippidis developed and was awarded three U.S. patents related to the remote reading of data from electric utility meters.
He was a member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE).
Mr. Philippidis received a degree in electrical engineering from Farouk University, now the University of Alexandria.
On March 3, 1956, he married Calliope (Poppy) Angela Papaloizou in Alexandria, Egypt.
In addition to his wife, Mr. Philppidis is survived by his sons, Adam Philippidis of Hicksville, N.Y. and Alex Philippidis of White Plains, N.Y.; and a grandson, Philip James Philippidis of White Plains.
A sister, Ann Georges, died in November 2005.
Arrangements are being handled by the Ballard-Durand Funeral Home in White Plains. A wake will take place Monday from 2-4 p.m. and from 7-9 p.m.
A funeral service is set for 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Greek Orthodox Church of Our Saviour in Rye. Burial will take place at Greenwood Union Cemetery in Rye.
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