Arthur T. Hedden Jr. ’46

Art died May 6, 1997, at Community Medical Center in Toms River, N.J., after a brave battle with lymphomatic cancer. A lifelong bachelor, Art was born in Trenton and lived in Lawrenceville 34 years before moving to the Jersey shore at Harvey Cedars 18 years ago.

A graduate of Lawrenceville School, Art joined our class in the fall of 1942, served in the Army ordnance two and a half years before returning to Princeton in the summer of 1946 and completed his degree in 1948. He majored in English.

He began a 37-year career with Sears, Roebuck in the mid-Atlantic and New England area. An active churchman, Art was first an elder and then the Sunday school superintendent at Lawrence Road Presbyterian Church. He then was a member of the Zion Lutheran church in Barnegat Light, N.J., where he was v.p. of the church council. In retirement he particularly enjoyed volunteer work with the Ocean County Hospital and Ocean County Literacy Program in Manahawkin, N.J.

Art is survived by his brothers, Robert W. and Richard A., by his sisters, Dorothy Miller and Virginia Demeter, and by several nieces, nephews, great-nieces, and great-nephews. To them the class offers its sincere sympathy. Art will be remembered for his outgoing friendliness and sincerity and for loyalty to the class and Princeton.

The Class of 1946