Edward Lambert Barbour Jr. ’45

Ed died April 4, 2005.

Ed, a resident of Blue Hill, Maine, entered Princeton with the large contingent from Exeter. His Princeton career terminated at the end of his freshman year for service with the 20th Army Air Force in the Pacific, where he was a crew chief on B-29s in the Marianas.

Ed then took up residence in Oklahoma and received a degree in natural science and engineering physics from Oklahoma University, where he took advanced Army ROTC, resulting in a recall to active duty in Korea as a field artillery lieutenant. This led to a distinguished Army career until Ed's retirement in 1980, during which time he had tours of duty in the Pentagon and was deputy chief of staff for the Air Defense Command in Germany. In the course of his career, Ed married Joan Romlein, a self-described "Army brat" who was an officer in the Army Nurse Corps, and a wife, daughter, and granddaughter of the Army.

Joan predeceased Ed, but their two children, Edward Lambert III and Frances Elizabeth, survive. The class expresses its sympathy to the children.

The Class of 1945