John Webster Carlile ’38

Web died Sept. 8, 2005, in Durham, N.C., where he had lived for the past eight years.

He prepared at Columbus Academy, and at Princeton he majored in English and graduated with honors. He was on the Princetonian editorial board, on the Nassau Lit board, and was a member of Quadrangle Club. Web was also our class poet.

During World War II he served as a first lieutenant with the Quartermaster Corps in Washington, D.C. In 1940 he married Jane Wood, also from Columbus. They raised four children, moving the family first to Dayton, then to Mount Vernon, Ohio, then to West Hartford, Conn., and then to Winnetka, Ill. They spent summers at their cottage on Walloon Lake, Mich.

In his later years, Web and Jane lived in Fort Wayne, Ind., and Winston-Salem, N.C. Then, after success as a businessman and entrepreneur, Web retired and moved to Durham. In 1997 his wife of 57 years predeceased him. His son, John Jr., died in 1998 and his daughter, Celia Monton, in May 2005. He is survived by his daughters Catherine Craver and Virginia Queal, and seven grandchildren. The class extends sincere condolences to them all.

The Class of 1938