Henry Lawton Wightman Jr. ’39

Hank died peacefully Oct. 25, 2006, at his home in Wimberly, Texas.

A member of Terrace Club at Princeton, he majored in politics and participated in ROTC, which gave him an opportunity to shoot, a horse to ride (fox hunts on weekends), and the camaraderie of many friends; and made him an officer when he volunteered to serve in the military intelligence service in World War II. He was sent as military attaché to Nicaragua and El Salvador and as assistant military attaché to the American embassy in Mexico. He was awarded the U.S. Legion of Merit, and Mexico awarded him the Merito Militar.

Beginning as an international underwriter in Venezuela, he started a company there in 1950 for Houston’s Adams & Porter, later started his own agency, sold it, joined Johnson & Higgins, and on retirement, joined Lloyd’s of London. A lover of the outdoors, he was an accomplished hunter, sailor, fisherman, and horseman.

Hank and Dorothy Wilson were married in 1944. After her death he moved to the Texas hill country with his daughter, Alice. She survives, as do his son William; daughter Julia; and six grandchildren. We offer them our sincere sympathy.