Harry Arthur Willson Jr. ’44

Harry died Oct. 1, 2009, in Cape May Court House, N.J. He was 88.

An economics major at Princeton, Harry was active in basketball and baseball and was on the freshman debate team. He roomed with John Mann in his junior year, but left for military service in May 1943, graduating in 1947. As an Army first lieutenant, he won a Bronze Star, was among the first to cross the Rhine at the Remagen Bridge, and was a liberator of the Dachau concentration camp.

Harry had an active real estate career. The owner of Willson Real Estate in Pennsauken, N.J., until 1979, Harry founded Willson Real Estate School and Graduate Real Estate Institute of New Jersey, was a past president of the New Jersey Association of Real Estate Boards, and was active in other real estate groups. He also was president of the Pennsauken Lions Club and a member of the Merchantville (N.J.) Borough Council, Homosassa Club, the American Legion Hall, and Presbyterian churches in New Jersey and Florida.

Harry’s wife of 56 years, Mary Geraldine, predeceased him. His three sons, including Charles F. Willson ’70; two daughters; and 11 grandchildren survive.