Edward Evans Denniston Jr. ’42

Ted died Mar. 22, 2000, in Steuben, Maine, his home since 1987. In engineering and sales for most of his career, Ted was retired at the time of his death.

Ted prepared for Princeton at Penn Charter School and majored in mechanical engineering. He left Princeton in Dec. 1941 to enlist in the Naval Air Corps. After flight school he served as a PB2Y pilot in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Pacific theaters. He was also awarded a presidential citation during his four and a half years of service.

After WWII Ted worked for American Pulley Co. in Philadelphia, before joining Welding Engineers, Inc., a national steel engineering and fabricating business. In 1972 he entered the home improvement business on his own. He retired in 1987 to move permanently to the coast of Maine, where his family had summered for most of his life.

To his wife, Betty, his sons, Evans and Michael, his daughter, Barbara, his stepchildren, Charles and Robyn, and his nine grandchildren, the class extends its most sincere condolences.

The Class of 1942