H. Ezra Eberhardt Jr. ’33

Ez died April 11, 2005, at the Pine Acres Rehabilitation Center in Madison, N.J., following a brief illness. He was 93.

Born in Newark, he lived in Chatham, N.J., for 63 years and was a summer resident of West Harwich, Mass.

Ez graduated cum laude from Princeton with a bachelor's in economics. He spent 40 years with the Prudential Insurance Co. in Newark, where he worked in the claims and comptroller's departments. He retired in 1973.

Ez was a trustee and treasurer at Ogden Memorial Presbyterian Church in Chatham, and was a member of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution and of the Descendants of Washington's Army at Valley Forge. He authored three family genealogy books as well as a history of the family business, Gould & Eberhardt, formerly in Irvington, N.J., and a history of Boy Scout Troop 3 in Maplewood.

He is survived by his wife of 66 years, Katherine Elkington Eberhardt; a son,

Henry E. III; six grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

The Class of 1933