Edward Bruce Whitesell ’41

Bruce died Feb. 2, 2004, from congestive heart failure. He had moved several months before his death to the home of his son, David, in East Hartford, Conn.

He came to Princeton from East Orange [N.J.] HS. He majored in chemistry and graduated with high honors. A member of Court Club and Sigma Xi, he roomed with Dick Stoner. Bruce entered the Army Medical Corps in 1943 and was commissioned upon completing medical school at Columbia. He interned at Bellevue Hospital, spent his residency at Cornell Medical School with an elective fifth year at Lahey Clinic in Boston, and after two years at Fort Knox, Ky., and Camp Attebury, Ind., left as a captain.

Bruce then spent several years at the Bronx V.M. Hospital before starting his practice in Short Hills, N.J. He specialized in general surgery, primarily at Overlook Hospital in Summit, N.J., retiring after 30 years. Bruce visited 20 countries during his lifetime.

Predeceased by his three wives, Jeanne Curtis Whitesell, Katherine Beyer Whitesell, and Ann Schaper Whitesell, he is survived by sons John, Tom, and David; daughter Margery; nine grandchildren; and numerous stepchildren and step-grandchildren.

The Class of 1941