Herbert Waldemar Koehn Jr. ’30

Laddie died Jan. 6, 2006, in Sun City, Ariz. He was 97.

Born Sept. 15, 1908, in Brooklyn and raised in Rosemont, Pa., he prepared at the Haverford School, from which he graduated in 1926. Laddie entered Princeton as an expert golfer, and was also active in baseball, publications, and debating.

After Princeton, Laddie went to work as a manufacturer's representative for his father's office furniture company, Sikes Chair Co., in Philadelphia and Buffalo, N.Y. He married his wife, Dorothy, in 1940 in her hometown of Little Rock, Ark.

In addition to his business, Laddie had a long career as a competitive amateur golfer, having won a number of championships, including the Princeton University Championship and the Merion Cricket Club Championship. In 1970 he retired and moved with Dorothy to Arizona, where he continued to golf competitively and was an active member of the Faith Presbyterian Church.

Dorothy died in 2002. Laddie is survived by his sons, James Robert Koehn and George Waldemar Koehn; his grandchildren, James Alden Koehn, Susan Elizabeth Stuck, and Robert W. Koehn '94; and seven great-grandchildren. To his family, the class extends its deepest sympathy.

The Class of 1930