Albert A. Goers, 92, an architect who helped develop Oak Ridge, Tenn., as part of the Manhattan Project, died Wednesday, Sept. 12, in Central DuPage Hospital. He had lived in Glen Ellyn since 1952. Mr. Goers was born in Dundee in 1909. He later attended what is now the Illinois Institute of Technology before joining the architecture firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. After completing the Oak Ridge project, he worked for several Chicago-based architectural firms on such projects as River City in the South Loop, restaurants spanning the Illinois tollway system and the Health Science Center at the State University of New York. “He was very much interested in design and woodworking and was very creative in his work,” said Dorathy Goers, his wife of 61 years. “He was very artistic and painted beautiful watercolors.” The Goerses loved to travel, his wife said, and they took many trips abroad, including one around the world. In addition to his wife, Mr. Goers is survived by two sons, Fred and John; a daughter, Cleo Hurley; a brother, Otto; a sister, Ruth Proesel; nine grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. A memorial service will begin at 2 p.m. Sunday in Grace Lutheran Church, 493 Forest Ave., Glen Ellyn.
