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Alfred Channon Morton Jr died on Friday, June 9, 2023, in Chicago, IL. Al was a long time resident of the Jersey Shore, having grown up in Sea Girt, the son of Alfred Channon Morton Sr and Margaret Cox Morton. He moved to Oceanport after he married and resided there for 40 years. Al and his wife moved to Chicago in the summer of 2020.
Al was a graduate of Manasquan High School and received both his BSEE and his MSEE from Monmouth College in West Long Branch. After college, he began working for Computer Sciences Corporation as a contractor at Fort Monmouth’s Satellite Communications Agency and then went to work directly with SATCOMA before beginning an almost 40 year career at Bell Labs/AT&T. In that capacity, Al was a proud contributor to many important internet standards through the Internet Engineering Taskforce (IETF) where he was chair of the international internet engineering standards for benchmarking methodologies and performance metrics used daily in maintaining and improving our internet access. He was the author of more than 31 IETF RFCs, several Linux Foundation projects, and the holder in partnership with AT&T of many patents.
In his private life, Al loved traveling, movies, and making and enjoying music with his many friends and family on the Jersey Shore, Chicago, and wherever he traveled. He loved going to concerts and was a particular fan of the many young singer/songwriters who performed in summer concerts every year at the shore.
Al is survived by his wife Louise Dewar, his daughter Margaret, his twin brother John Morton and John’s wife Altha (Sea Girt), and cousin Jennifer Cox (Havertown, PA). In addition, he will be missed by sisters and brothers by marriage, nieces and nephews, great nieces and nephews, and hundreds of friends from all over the world who thought of him as a brother.
A remembrance gathering is scheduled for July 20 at Spring Lake Manor from 6-9pm which will be followed the next morning at 11am by a burial service at Atlantic View Cemetery in Manasquan. Friends and family who would like to do something in his memory are asked to consider donating to the Cancer Institute of New Jersey, which supported his medical journey for two decades, or 90.5 The Night at Brookdale Community College, a public radio station that fed his soul for even longer.
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