Henry Kelker Moffitt ’32

Henry Moffitt died Aug. 19, 1995, of a heart attack at his home in Columbus, N.C.

Because of the Depression, he left Princeton after sophomore year. He worked for a department store and then became a Navy aviator. After four years of active flight duty, in 1940, he joined the airplane division of Curtiss-Wright in Buffalo, N.Y. In Dec. 1940, he married Mary Elisabeth Licklider. In 1942 he became manager of military contracts and flight tests at the Louisville, Ky., plant of Curtiss-Wright. In 1945 he became contract manager at the Curtiss-Wright Airplane Division Research Laboratory in Buffalo. In 1950 he became business manager, and at the time of his retirement in 1971, he was a corporate director, holding the posts of acting president and treasurer.

He moved to Tryon from East Aurora, N.Y., in 1971 and was director of fiscal affairs at St. Luke's Hospital before joining the Southern Wood Piedmont Co.'s accounting department at its headquarters in Spartanburg. He retired from there in 1976.

He was a member of the Tryon Presbyterian Church and the Tryon Community Chorus. He was active in the Red Cross.

He is survived by five sons, Henry Jr., Andrew, Anthony, John, and Peter; five grandchildren; and two nieces. To all of them, the class extends sincere condolences.

The Class of 1932