Carl H. Donner ’20

Carl H. Donner, of Summit, N.J., died Nov. 29, 1996, of congestive heart failure in Overlook Hospital in Summit. He was 97. He had been a resident of Summit for 90 years.

He started at Princeton when he was 16 and participated in the Cane Spree. He played tennis and skated. He majored in civil engineering. He was in the student army training corps at Princeton during WWI.

He was president of Donner and Co., a fur-felt supplier to hatters, a business that had been in the family for 200 years. Every spare minute was spent on the family's farm in Bernardsville, N.J.

Survivors include his wife of 64 years, Louise Adams Donner, his children, Louise D. Roe, Carl. P. II, and Susan D. Mark, nine grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.

The Class of 1920