John Phillips Truesdell ’42

John died July 21, 1997, in Ft.Wayne, Ind. After a long career in insurance, John was still active, in partnership with his daughter, Fern, in the financial planning and advisory field at the time of his death.

John attended Hotchkiss before coming to Princeton, majored in English, and was a member of Dial Lodge Club. He left Princeton at the end of junior year to join the Navy, serving in destroyers for over four years and attaining the rank of lieutenant commander. After the war he formed his own life insurance brokerage business, J. P. Truesdell Co., on Long Island, in Huntington, N.Y., which he operated for many years before moving to Ft. Wayne.

To his widow, Ruth; to his children, Edward, Walt, Barb, and Fern; and to his four grandchildren and great-grandchild, the class extends profound sympathies.

The Class of 1942