Arthur M. Coddington Jr. ’43

Art died peacefully Dec. 29, 2018, in Oxford, N.Y., surrounded by his three children. He was 98.

Like brothers Carlton ’38 and James ’46, Art came to Princeton from Johnson City (N.Y.) High School, where he was a standout athlete. He spent one year at Phillips Exeter Academy, again excelling at sports. At Princeton he played freshman football and quarterbacked the undefeated 150-pound football team. He also played baseball and rugby. He belonged to the Catholic Club and Tiger Inn. He majored in biology, noting in the Nassau Herald that he planned to study medicine at Penn and become a doctor.

He did just that. Entering Penn right after graduation, he spent three years there and two years interning at Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, Pa. After two years in the Army, where he served as a captain and medic in peacetime Japan and Korea, he completed residencies in pathology and pediatrics. In 1952 he established a private practice of pediatrics in Johnson City.

In 1954 Art married Margaret “Margie” Nealon. Art was a devoted husband, loving father, involved citizen, and forever a Tiger. His family reports that one of his last words was “Princeton.”

Art was predeceased by Margie in 2012. He is survived by daughters Dr. Jane A. Coddington and Mary Spezzano, and Mary’s husband, Bill; son Arthur M. Coddington III ’87; and grandsons Patrick, Sean, and James Spezzano.