LYNNWOOD — Sparling electrical engineering and architectural lighting design firm is being acquired through a merger with Stantec, an Edmonton, Canada,-based company. Sparling, and its lighting ...

Sparling was born in 1917 in Stanley, Wis., and grew up in Flaxville, Mont. He graduated from Montana State University in 1939 with a degree in electrical engineering, and moved to Seattle in 1940.