George Kenneth Flavell Jr. ’39

Ken died at his home in Medford, N.J., on Jan. 4, 2002. For several years he had suffered from Parkinson's, but at the end a massive heart attack was the cause of death. After college Ken worked briefly for the Philadelphia Electric Co. until he was called to active duty with the Navy, serving as supply officer on a destroyer escort in the Pacific. In 1948 he joined Rohm and Haas Co. in Philadelphia, where he established and managed a marketing and sales training program until he retired in 1976. He and his wife, Dorothy, were then able to move to Hawaii to a home they had long ago planned for. They had five wonderful years there before family considerations brought them back to the mainland, eventually settling at the continuing care community where they were living at the time of his death.

Dorothy, their two sons, Stuart and Christopher, one grandson, and two great-grandchildren, as well as his sister, Grace, survive. To all Ken's loved ones we offer our sincere sympathy.

The Class of 1939