George Washington Devoe ’46

Self-styled country lawyer George W. DeVoe died Jan. 12, 2004, at his longtime home in Highland Park, N.J.

A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, he entered Princeton in 1942, served as an Air Force meteorology officer in Hawaii and Johnson Island, and returned to graduate in engineering in 1949. While at Princeton, he married Edith Hughes. George entered U. Va. Law School, graduated in 1952, and was admitted to the New Jersey bar. He began a lifelong law career at his father's firm, and later added his daughter, Alice, to the firm of DeVoe and DeVoe, specializing in trust, estates, real estate, and banking.

George was a vestryman at Christ Episcopal Church in New Brunswick, and also worked with the YMCA, Chamber of Commerce, Salvation Army, St. Peter's Hospital Foundation, and the Class of '46 Memorial Fund. He collected model trains, lighting his lawn each Christmas with a large train overlooking the Raritan river. With grandchildren, he and Edith traveled to Europe, Alaska, Maine, and the Southwest.

Surviving, in addition to Edith, are daughters Alice, Edith Klink, and Susan Goff; a son, George Jr.; two sisters; and six grandchildren. To them, the class extends its sympathy.

The Class of 1946