Airline Ticket Designer Dies

Mon., June 24, 1996

From Staff And Wire Reports

Richard D. Roselle, an engineer and designer who invented the red-carboned, coupon airline ticket, has died. He was 79.

Roselle, who died June 15 of heart failure, came up with the ticket design, which is still in use today, in 1945 while working as an engineer for TWA. He also designed standard aircraft interiors, timetables and ticket counters for the airline.

As an independent designer, Roselle also worked on boats, trains, planes and homes. As a Boeing subcontractor, he helped design the interior of the first Air Force One, a Boeing 707 recently given to the Museum of Flight in Seattle.

Survivors include his wife, Judith Roselle of Bellevue; daughters Sherrie St. Amant of Boston, Gay Roselle Gerkey of Seattle, and Christina Roselle Bauman of Pittsburgh, and seven grandchildren.

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