Donald Richards Livingston ’31

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Don was born Apr. 30, 1909, in Cordele, Ga., and died at the Memorial Health Medical Center in Savannah on July 29, 2001. He was 92.

He prepared at Georgia Military Academy and then Lawrenceville. After graduation, he entered Princeton, where he gained numerals on the freshman golf team, followed by the varsity golf team and the Varsity Club. He was also a member of Tiger Inn.

After college, he became president of the Savannah Cotton Exchange and Savannah Warehouse & Compress Co., until they were sold during the war. He was also president of Southern Fertilizer & Chemical Co., Coloraine Homes, and Seaview Development Co. In 1965 he became a director of Georgia State Savings Bank and Savannah Bank & Trust Co., and he donated the 47-acre site for the Savannah Country Day School.

On the lighter side, he belonged to the Society of Colonial Wars, F.&A.M., and the Oglethorpe-Savannah Golf Club, the Century and Cotillion Clubs, and St. Andrew's Society.

Don is survived by two daughters, Mary Ann and Ethel, one brother, Lorton S., and four grandchildren. The class extends its deepest sympathy to the entire family.

The Class of 1931

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