Alfred F. Shine ’48

Al was born in 1921 in Jersey City, N.J., and died Nov. 7, 2015, in Stuart, Fla.

He served in the Marines during World War II, was stationed in the Marshall Islands and elsewhere in the Pacific, and was wounded in combat. After he graduated from Princeton in 1947, Al was called again to active duty, first in Korea, and then for a year in the U.S. military’s occupation of Japan. Meanwhile, he married Mary in 1949, and they were together until her death in 1995.

Al’s entire business career was with Prudential Insurance Co., first in the Chicago area, and then at the company headquarters in New Jersey. After he retired in 1982, the family moved from Short Hills, N.J., to Florida, where Al met his second wife, Dottie.

He is survived by Dottie; three children from his first marriage, Jacqueline Morgan, Ann Shine, and Charles; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.