Charles MacNaughton Tillinghast ’39

Lad died Feb. 24, 1998, as a result of a stroke suffered about a week before. He had retired from his lifetime career as an insurance agent in 1989 and was living in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, where he maintained his lifelong connections as vestryman of his church and board member of a local hospital.

In 1941 Lad enlisted as a private in the 107th Cavalry Regiment and served in North Africa and Italian campaigns. He continued affiliation with that regiment in the Ohio National Guard, retiring in 1966 as a major. Always a nature lover, Lad enjoyed puttering in his garden, and as a follower of Roger Tory Peterson he kept up a life list of birds.

Lad lost his first wife, Francis Garfield, in 1981. Their daughters, Carolyn Powers and Nancy, three grandchildren, and two sisters survive, as well as the children and grandchildren of his second wife, Constance Doan, who died in 1990. They all celebrated his life, Nancy told us, "at a wonderful service in Chagrin Falls where we even had a few strains of 'Old Nassau' woven in." In the same spirit we bid our old friend farewell.

The Class of 1939