George H. Beddoe ’30

George Halsey Beddoe of Fredericksburg, Va., died Dec. 10, 1998, at Heartsfield Assisted Living in Stafford County. He had congestive heart failure. He was 90.

George came to Princeton from the Haverford School. After graduate work at the U. of Toronto he was an asphalt paving technologist with Imperial Oil of Canada, Colprovia of Philadelphia, and Ashland Oil in Ashland, Ky., where he was the assistant manager of the asphalt department and manager of asphalt research from 1940-74.

During WWII, he built airport runways for the Army Corps of Engineers in Central and South America.

Survivors include two daughters, Mary Beddoe Jett and Elizabeth Beddoe Littleton, a son, George III, a sister, Elizabeth Beddoe Wood, a brother, Robert, 11 grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren. His wife, Lucy, died 10 days later on Dec. 20, 1998. The class extends its deepest sympathy to his family.

The Class of 1930