John H. Wert ’57

John died April 4, 2026, in Grand Rapids, Mich. At Princeton he majored in history and was a freshman and varsity baseball player for four years. Joining Tiger Inn, he became a member of many of its intramural sports teams, a member of its Bicker Committee, and roomed there with Ed Byers, Tony Gibbs, Charlie Hauser, Fritz Heyd, and Paul Schnatz his senior year. He also was a member of Whig-Clio.

After graduation John spent time with the Air Force and Reserves, including action during the Cuban Missile Crisis. While an officer of the National Bank of Detroit, he married Martha “Marnie” Stevenson and they had four children. He later became an institutional bond expert at Halsey, Stuart & Co. in Detroit and Philadelphia, and later with Bache Halsey Stuart in Grand Rapids, and as a senior vice president at Tucker Anthony in Grand Rapids. He founded his own firm, Wert Financial Group, that he sold in 2009. He and Marnie moved to Ocean Ridge, Fla., but maintained the Michigan home near their daughter.

John became a member of the board of the Clark Foundation, raising funds for the Clark Retirement Community, where his wife had great care and where she died.

John was predeceased by his wife of 53 years, Marnie, in 2013, his son Stephen in 2022, and his lady friend and partner, Andy Anderson, in 2022. John is survived by sons John Jr. ’82 and wife Sherry ’83 h’57, and Robert; daughter Elizabeth and her husband Mike; nine grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.