Torr died of cancer Jan. 13, 2014.
During a 30-year career in the Air Force, he saw combat in two wars and was decorated with the Legion of Merit, two Distinguished Flying Crosses, and numerous air medals.
He prepared for Princeton at St. Paul’s. At Princeton he majored in biology and was a member of Key and Seal. Within two years of graduation, he was flying F-80 Shooting Stars and F-86 Sabres in Korea. Following Korea, he was an instructor-pilot at Air Force bases in Texas, Alabama, Cape Cod, Mass., and South Carolina.
Torr returned to action as an F-4 Phantom fighter-bomber pilot in Vietnam. Next came Italy as a NATO staff officer, Westover AFB in Massachusetts, and Loring AFB in Maine as chief of security, and finally, deputy base commander at Loring.
After retiring as a lieutenant colonel in 1980, he took up residence on a farm in northeastern Maine, where he was active in town government, the Episcopal Church, and Rotary. He enjoyed the weeks he spent at Princeton roommate Sid Fox’s lakeside camp in Maine.
Our sympathy goes to Torr’s daughter, Libby Millar, of West Newbury, Mass., with whom he had lived the past few years. His wife, Betty, predeceased him in 2008.