Howard Elbert Moore Jr. ’41

Bud was killed in a pedestrian accident on June 4, 2002. After preparing at the Peddie School, he was very active in intramural sports at Princeton and a member of the Catholic Club and Key and Seal Club. He majored in civil engineering.

He entered the Army in Jan. 1942, was later commissioned, spent two years in the European theater, and was separated as a captain in 1946.

Returning home a professional engineer, he joined his father in business at the Erie Contracting and Engineering Corp. He later started the Moore Equipment and Engineering Co. in Bloomfield, N.J.

Bud was a former member of the Montclair Engineering Society and the Montclair Golf Club. He was an enthusiastic golfer until five years ago, when he had a stroke, which was followed by six major operations, the last being removal of a kidney.

He is survived by his wife of 59 years, Eleanor Tokar Moore, son Craig, and two grandchildren, Kyle and Scott.

The Class of 1941