Hunnewell Braman Jr. ’38

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He was the great-grandson of Frederick William Gunn, founder of The Gunnery preparatory school in Washington, and was a sixth-generation member of the Brinsmade and Braman families to attend the school.

At Princeton, Hunn majored in modern languages and graduated with departmental honors.

In 1939 he started working for Wyeth Laboratories and American Home Products in various capacities. In 1944 he entered the Army and served as a master sergeant operating a mobile medical unit in Manila after Gen. MacArthur's return to the Philippines.

Postwar, he spent the next 17 years working for Wyeth. In 1956 he became district sales manager in charge of many large-scale health projects in Pennsylvania.

In 1982, Hunn and his wife, Ruth, retired to Palm Coast, Fla., enjoying life there until moving in 2002 to the Glenmoor Retirement Home in St. Augustine, where Ruth died in 2004 after a long illness.

Hunn is survived by his brother, Grenville; his sister, Helen Gray; his sons, Thomas C. '61 and Robert G. '65; daughter Kathleen Allen; and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren, to all of whom the class extends sincere sympathy.

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