Ira Miles Appel ’24

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IRA APPEL died in Tucson May 1, 1990. He prepared at the Princeton Prep. He left Princeton in 1921 to engage in business. Ira was associated with the Farmers' Deposit Savings Bank of Pittsburgh until 1940, when he moved to Tucson because of his wife's HI health. He and his wife, who died in 1973, operated a dude ranch in the Catalina foothills. He was greatly interested in amateur radio broadcasting and operated his own station under the call letters of WJQB. We know of no relatives.

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