John P. Tederstrom ’60

John died Sept. 2, 2024.

Born in Pittsburgh, he graduated from Phillips Andover Academy. His keen interest in German language and literature there continued at Princeton, where he majored in Germanic languages and was vice president of the German Club. He was also active in the St. Paul’s Society and Whig-Clio and joined Tower Club.

On graduation, John went directly on to study German at Indiana University. However, he left after six months and began steps toward a career in the Episcopal Church. He served as a postulant in the church in 1961 on a South Dakota Sioux Reservation prior to entering the Church Divinity School of the Pacific. He spent summers in reservation activities while earning a bachelor of divinity degree in 1964.

John combined his language and ecclesiastical training in the late 1960s and ’70s, serving in Episcopal churches in Italy, Germany, and France. From 1979, he was employed in several capacities with the Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky, from which he retired around 2000.

John married Sarah Eddy in 1966. They had five children and 10 grandchildren together, and divorced in 1983. In his later years, John had a devoted partner, Mark Cannon, in Louisville, who survives him along with his children and grandchildren. The class sends sympathy to all those he leaves behind.