Edward A. Limberg Jr. ’37

Inveterate reuner, with a whimsical sense of humor, Eddie Limberg died June 29, 1996, leaving wife Sally of 55 years, three daughters, Mary, Anne, and Leslie, and two grandchildren.

At Princeton, Eddie majored in psychology, was on the freshman soccer, freshman lacrosse, and JV lacrosse teams. He was a cheerleader and a member of Triangle Club, Theatre Intime, Yacht Club, and Cottage Club.

Eddie toured a bit after college, including time spent prospecting for gold and working on freighters, and he received paychecks from Procter & Gamble and Ford Motor Co. before the Navy snatched him in 1940 for four and a half years, starting as an apprentice seaman. After time in Panama, the Caribbean, and Pacific as exec on a destroyer, the USS Waller (DD 466), including action off Shanghai for which he received the personal commendation ribbon, he emerged a lt. commander.

He spent a few years in the insurance business in St. Louis with the Charles L. Crane Agency and later the Inland Insurance Agency. He then had his own small distributorship for lighting products, retiring in 1978. "Have been in the hospital a few times in the last couple of years (including to remove a larynx in 1992). At one point they just about gave me up, but I was too mean to oblige them." All our condolences go to the family.

The Class of 1937