Benjamin Davis Tyler ’45

Ben Tyler died April 27, 2005.

Ben entered Princeton from Woodberry Forest and joined Ivy Club. His Princeton career was terminated in 1943 by service as an officer with the 1st Cavalry Division in the Pacific theater, and he did not return to Princeton after that service. After the war, he married the former Bettie Golden and started a lifelong career with the Williams Lumber Co. in Columbus, Ga.

In our 25th yearbook of 1970, Ben reported that he was president of the lumber company and investing heavily in land-development corporations and residential construction. Ben and Bettie had four children, three daughters and a son, all of whom survive him, along with seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

The class expresses its sympathy to Bettie; son Benjamin Jr.; daughters Barbara Frickel, Virginia Hammond, and Cynthia Davis; and to the extended family generations.