John Whitney Nixon ’34

JOHN (NODDY) NIXON, whose career was as an engineer with Shell Oil and National Distillers, died Dec. 4 after a long illness. His wife, Barbara predeceased him by 13 months. Both of them, along with their four children, attended Reunions in 1989. "Princeton has always been a special part of Daddy's life," one of his daughters wrote, "and so were his friends from '34. Thank goodness we could all make the 55th."

Noddy retired in 1971. Two years later he and his wife moved to Avery Island, La., her ancestral home. (She was Barbara McIlhenny, of the Tabasco family.) They built a house there on 25 acres, "most of it heavily wooded," Noddy said "the most noise we hear is the stamping of the deer." Owing to his illness, aggravated by a fractured lower vertebra that caused him chronic back pain, he came north a year ago to be with his son in Newtown Square, Penn. He died in a rehab center near there.

His son, John W. Nixon Jr., survives, as do three daughters, Penny (Mrs. Scott C.) Puckett, Josephine (Jo) Nixon, and Brena (Mrs. Richard B.) Parsons, and five grandchildren. To them we offer our sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1934