Popa passes after accident

John Popa, whose engineering career centered around electricity generation, was wired differently.

That’s not a knock on the amazing life of Popa, and he’d readily admit the same today if a traffic accident had not taken his life. In fact, he writes in detail about being born with “an extra battery pack” in a remarkable 231-page autobiography that he penned mainly for family consumption.

“I’m still tormented by thinking all the time, can’t sleep much, and I have this extra battery,” he wrote in the book’s epilogue.