Although his company’s products could be found globally and beyond — even in space in the form of FELLFAB® protective coverings for a Canadian-built robotic arm serving the International Space Station — company founder Don Fell “would always ask how our elevator pad sales were going,” FELLFAB’s Mark Maddalena told Canadian Elevator Contractor Association Executive…

Robert Bryan “Bob” Moorer, a lifelong elevator man and resident of Moorestown, New Jersey, passed away in November 2021 at age 71, surrounded by family. Moorer began working at his father’s elevator company, The Penn City Elevator Co. of Philadelphia, during summers when he was in high school. After graduating from the University of South…

Engineer Ami Lustig, born in Israel in 1950, passed away in November 2021. It was clear from the age of 6 — when he would accompany his father, Simha, to the office of ESL, the leading elevator consultants in Israel — that his future lay in the elevator industry. After graduating with an engineering degree…

Joseph Stier, who pioneered the establishment of the International Association of Elevator Engineers (IAEE) and its accompanying congress, Elevcon, passed away in November 2021, two weeks prior to the death of his friend and colleague Ami Lustig. Born in 1946, Stier was a man of many and various gifts. His father, Oscar, was a painter…

William T. “Bill” Dunlevy, who owned and ran Turnersville, New Jersey-based William J. Dunlevy & Sons, passed away in September, The Peelle Co. announced. William J. Dunlevy & Sons has been the sales representative for Peelle in the Mid-Atlantic region for more than 44 years. Dunlevy took great pride in and loved his work. Dunlevy…

Leopoldo Celaya, retired after a long career as a machinist in the elevator industry, died peacefully at his home in Phoenix, Arizona, on September 28. He was 80 years old. Celaya was born January 4, 1941, in Oquitoa, Sonora, Mexico, the youngest of 12 children, and raised in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico. He came to…

Darryl Cervi, a respected member of the elevator industry in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, passed away unexpectedly on August 30 after a short but valiant battle against Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, also known as prion disease. Cervi started his work in the elevator trade in the summer of 1968 with a “temporary” job as a helper, and never looked…

William B. “Bill” Payton, a well-known elevator engineer, passed away peacefully with his family by his side on September 21 after a battle with bulbar onset amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Born in NYC, Payton grew up in Closter, New Jersey, and earned a BS in electrical engineering from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey,…