Edward Horace Decker ’36

ED, AT THE age of 80, died Apr. 22, 1993, in Ridgewood, N.J., where he had lived since 1918.

He prepared at Phillips Exeter Academy. At Princeton, he majored in politics and was a member of the Princeton University band, Glee Club, and Quadrangle Club. In 1937, he attended the Harvard Business School.

After spending three years learning the industrial fabric business, he worked for Owens Corning Fiberglass Corp., specializing in developing uses for fibrous glass textile items. He next joined Hess Goldsmith and Company, which later became Burlington Industries, Inc. He retired in 1971 from Burlington, where he had been Southeastern sales manager of its industrial fabrics division.

Ed was a past president of the Princeton Alumni Assn. of Bergen and Passaic counties. His hobbies included trout fishing in the Adirondacks, boating, local history, genealogy, and antiques. He was a member of the Joe Jefferson (fishing) Club of Saddle River, N.J., and was an original member of Boy Scout Troop #7, which was formed in Upper Ridgewood back in the 1920s.

He is survived by his widow, Agnes Jones Decker, whom he married in 1944; daughters Virginia, Susan Charron, and Deborah Koch; a sister, Miriam Alsevar; and two grandchildren.

Ed will be remembered as a loyal Princetonian and classmate.

The Class of 1936