Hugo Rutherfurd ’34

Hugo, of Aiken, S.C., and Hobe Sound, Fla., died Jan. 31, 2006, two months after his 94th birthday.

A service was held in the Rutherfurd Chapel in Allamuchy, N.J., the family home. The Rutherfurd Chapel was also the site of a memorial service for Hugo's wife, Francesca "Frankie" Villa Rutherfurd, who died in 1995. (Frankie Rutherfurd was the sister of Consuelo Villa Hamilton, the wife of John T. Hamilton II '34, one of Hugo's undergraduate roommates. Consuelo Hamilton died in 1972, "Hammy" in 2002.)

Hugo was the brother of Winthrop Rutherfurd '28, who died in 1988; John P. Rutherfurd '32, who died in 1987; and Guy G. Rutherfurd, who lives in New York. A sister, Barbara R. Knowles, the widow of amateur golfer Robert W. "Bobby" Knowles, died in November.

Hugo was an accomplished oarsman who rowed on crews at his prep school, St. Paul's in Concord, N.H., and at college. A regular supporter of Princeton crew, he was a contributor in 1969 to the construction of the indoor rowing tank.

The Class of 1934