Horace Marchant ’44

HO MARCHANT DIED of emphysema Apr. 18, 1994. He came to Princeton from Evanston (Ill.) H.S., following in the steps of a grandfather (1883) and an uncle (1917). His brother Birney '46 died in 1989.

Ho left Princeton in 1943 to enter the army and served for 42 years in the reserve. After service in France and Germany with the 256th Combat Engineers, he returned to Evanston, married Lee Nainis in 1947, and started his career first with Swift. He was called up for Korea and for Vietnam as a mem­ber of the 416th Engineering Brigade Reserve. He then joined the postal service and continued with it for most of the rest of his career.

To his widow, Lee, who noted that for 42 years “he was a proud soldier"; to his sons Horace Jr. and Geoffrey '72; to his daughter Muriel; and to his four grandchildren, the class extends its sympathy.