Henry P. Erwin Jr. ’53

Henry died June 11, 2025, in Davis, Calif.

Born in Washington, D.C., He came to Princeton after attending Culver Military Academy and Lawrenceville School. He joined Charter Club and majored in electrical engineering. After graduation, he spent two years serving on a destroyer escort in the Atlantic Fleet and then earned an MBA from Harvard.

After working for several small aerospace companies, Henry bought a small electrical coil manufacturing company and built it up to about 100 employees before selling it and retiring. This gave him time to expand his role as a soccer referee and singing in church and choral groups. The latter activity took him and his wife, Martha, to the Berkshire Choral Festival and to Salzburg and touring Hungary, singing medieval and Renaissance music.

Henry is survived by Martha and their son and daughter.