John Edgar Gomery Jr. ’34

John Gomery died Feb. 27, 1996, at the retirement community of Abbey Delray in Delray Beach, Fla. He came to Princeton from Haverford School. At Princeton he was a member of Cannon Club.

In 1934 he joined his father in Philadelphia at the Gomery Schwartz Motor Car Co., where he was employed until 1941, when he was drafted. He served in the Army Air Force until 1946, when he was discharged as a major. After the war he worked in the fruit and produce business with his uncle in Allentown, Pa. He retired to Florida in 1965 and served on the Delray Beach City Council and as treasurer of St. Paul's Episcopal Church for 17 years. He was very active in the Princeton Alumni Assn. of Palm Beach- Martin Counties and was its treasurer for many years.

John is survived by his wife, Julia Halsted Gomery, whom he married in 1943. (Her father, Douglas, was Class of '07.) He is also survived by his children, Douglas, Jill, and Jane, and two grandchildren, Colin and Russel.

The Class of 1934