John Wesley Haubner ’34

Wes Haubner, a retired patent attorney associated with General Electric Co. for 42 years, died March 26, 2006, of an apparent heart attack in Media, Pa., where he had lived since August 2000. A proud and devoted Princetonian, he was buried in his bright orange reunion jacket. He was 92.

In 1953, after a stint at GE's headquarters in Schenectady, N.Y., Wes accepted a position with the Philadelphia Switchgear Division of GE as head of its patent office, and he moved to Wallingford, Pa. Throughout his professional career, he was a member of the bar associations of New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Washington, D.C.

In 1936, Wes married Marion Q. Myers of Wilmington, N.C., who died in 1999. The following year he married Dolores M. Farley (nee Ritter), who survives. Also surviving are two daughters, Alice H. Stott and Josephine "Joey" H. Yocum; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. A third daughter, Mimi, died in 1958.

The Class of 1934