Frank Randolph Decker ’32

Frank Decker died Nov. 24, 1996, about one year after he was diagnosed with cancer. He had lived in Garden City, Long Island, until he moved to Essex, Conn., several years ago.

He married Marjorie Marony in 1931, and after graduation, he entered the trucking business. In 1933 he began working for the ACME Fast Freight Inc., a nationwide domestic freight forwarder in NYC, eventually becoming head of their trucking division. He retired in 1970.

During WWII, Frank served in the Navy in anti-submarine surveillance unit, devoting much time to plotting aircraft coverage for all U.S. ship convoys entering or leaving the Mediterranean Sea; he retired with the rank of commander.

Marjorie died in 1943. Frank married Gertrude R. Thompson, a widow, acquiring a stepson, E. Clark Thompson '52. Gertrude survives Frank, as do Peter, his son by Marjorie, seven grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren. The class mourns with them the loss of this loyal Princetonian and genial classmate.

The Class of 1932