John F. Frazer III ’49

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John died May 23, 2010, in Manchester, N.H. He lived in Bedford, N.H., and formerly lived in Lexington, Mass.

John was born in Baltimore June 27, 1918. He came to Princeton after service as a lieutenant in the Army Signal Corps in World War II. He majored in electrical engineering and received the John Ogden Bigelow Prize. After college he attended the Stanford Research Institute and then worked for Panametrics.

John liked to work in his garden, play the piano, do crossword puzzles, and tinker with his ham-radio equipment.

He was predeceased by his wife, Audrey Worthington Frazer, in 2006. He is survived by three daughters, Linda-Jo Pettingell, Jane Frazer Brown, and Ruth Ellen Kouches; four grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. The sympathy of the class goes to them all.

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