To Celebrate a Life of Love: Burt Kahn
August 18, 1933-August 12, 2021
Burton Maurice Kahn passed away on August 12, 2021 after a long illness. He was born on August 18, 1933 to the late David & Ethel (Goldstein) Kahn in Brooklyn, New York.Burton is survived by his loving wife, Alicia Hinojosa; three children, Howard Kahn and his wife Judie of Houston, TX, Julie and her husband Robert McCall of Acton, MA, and Bruce and his wife Shari of Fairfield, CT; his sister, Sonya Ferraro of Trumbull, CT; five grandchildren Adam (Cassy), Joshua (Meezah) and Ethan McCall, and Olivia and Solomon Kahn, great-grandfather of James McCall.
After growing up in Brooklyn, New York, Burton headed to Cambridge, Massachusetts to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he graduated as a civil engineer in 1955. This was one of his life’s greatest achievements. After serving in the army in California, in 1958, Burton moved to Connecticut where he became a professional engineer and built many buildings in the Hartford area. In the late 1970s when building in the northeast halted, he ventured to Houston, Texas where there was a building boom. In 1982, he moved to San Antonio to work at Brooks Air Force Base. Burton met the love of his life, Alicia Hinojosa, in San Antonio, whom he married in 2007.
Burton had a zest for life. He loved sailing, the opera, billiards, mathematics, and structural design for which he held two U.S. patents. He also mixed terrific margaritas.