Edward Joseph Posselius Jr. ’41 *42

Ed died Nov. 19 at his home in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.

Coming from the U. of Detroit H.S., he majored in chemical engineering at Princeton, achieving Phi Beta Kappa and graduating with honors in 1942. Ed was a member of Campus Club, serving as secy.-treas.

After school, Poss joined Standard Oil but left in the late 1940s to join the family business, the Good Housekeeping shops, where as chief executive he expanded the firm to 32 shops before liquidating it in 1996.

An avid pianist, Ed was active in a contemporary music group at St. Clare of Montefalco Catholic Church in Grosse Pointe Farms until just a few months before his death.

He was predeceased by his wife, Doris Church, but is survived by his children, a son, Edward III, his two daughters, Christy Lawrence and Tricia Mooney, as well as two grandchildren.

The Class of 1941