About the Mortensons

C. Walter Mortenson earned his bachelor's degree in liberal arts and sciences in 1937 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received a PhD in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin in 1940 and worked as a research chemist for Du Pont from 1940 to 1945. After earning a law degree from Temple University in 1945, he worked in the Du Pont legal department until 1955 when he founded Mortenson and Uebler, a private law practice in Wilmington, Delaware. He retired from private practice in 1981 and passed away in 1996.

Gerda B. Mortenson received her RN at Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, and earned a degree in public health nursing from the University of Hawaii in 1939. She earned a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1944 and for several years worked as a public health nurse for the State of Delaware. Mrs. Mortenson passed away in 1996.