Harry Borden Wardell ’36

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Harry, a loyal Princetonian and classmate, died Sept. 27, 2003, at Point Pleasant Beach, N.J.

He attended the Tome School and graduated from George School in Newtown, Pa. At Princeton he majored in economics and was a member of Quadrangle Club.

He was president of the Point Bay Fuel Co. and president of Point Pleasant Distributors, which was engaged in the wholesale beer business. He retired in 1978.

For many years Harry and his wife, Emily, spent six months each year at Point Pleasant Beach and six months in Naples, Fla. He was a director emeritus of Manasquan [N.J.] Savings and Loan Assn., was a past junior warden at St. Mary's by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, and served as treasurer of the Princeton Club of Southwest Florida. His community interests included the Rotary and Elks clubs, and the Bay Head, Manasquan River, and Naples yacht clubs.

Harry is survived by his daughters, Gail Dunn, Beth Hennon, and Joanne Carwithen, four grandchildren, and four great-grand-

children.

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