Like some others in our class, Jim was 17 when he started college in the summer of 1944, but soon left campus for a brief Navy service.
Born Feb. 26, 1927, he grew up in Cedarhurst, N.Y., and graduated from Woodmere Academy.
His career in the furniture business began in Los Angeles. There he married Margaret Thalken; they were divorced in 1966. Jim then moved in 1970 to San Francisco, where he met and married Rosemary Kingsbury. They moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1970 to live in a woodlands home in Sammamish, Wash.
Jim earned a master’s degree in history at the University of Washington. For many years he and Rosemary were season-long patrons of Seattle symphony concerts and theater.
He died Dec. 1, 2016. Rosemary survives him, as do many nieces and nephews.