David King Irwin Jr. ’32

Rex Irwin, who lived in New Vernon, N.J., since 1950, died Nov. 21, 1995, from a heart attack.

Rex worked for Bryce Bros. Co., manufacturers of glassware, near Pittsburgh. In 1941 he joined the Navy and for a while specialized in aviation ordnance. He then went aboard an escort carrier, which took part in several campaigns in the Pacific. Rex was granted a personal commendation and retired as a lt. comdr. at war's end. He set up a business as a manufacturers' representative in NYC. Until he retired in 1983, he represented several glassware manufacturers as well as the manufactures of other merchandise. He was an enthusiastic Princetonian and an avid fisherman.

In 1947 Rex married Lydia Langer of North Dakota, who died in 1972. They had three children, all of whom survive him: William L. '70, Mary Irwin Leinsdorf, and Lydia Cady Langer Irwin III. He is also survived by his second wife, Barbara Ridder, whom he married in 1977, and by five grandchildren. The class extends its sincere sympathy to all of them.

The Class of 1932