Joseph A. Faucher Jr. ’49

Joe died peacefully Aug.17, 2012, at the home he shared with his son, John.

He was born Oct. 2, 1927, in San Francisco. A Garden City (N.Y.) High School graduate, he majored in chemistry at Princeton, earned a Ph.D. in chemistry at Yale in 1953, and then spent a year at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, on a Fulbright scholarship, researching clay chemistry. After two years in the Army Chemical Corps, he began a career with Union Carbide that took him to Bound Brook, N.J.; Geneva, Switzerland; and Tarrytown, N.Y. After retirement in 1985, the Fauchers moved to San Diego County, Calif.

Joe was a genealogist, piano player, reader, speaker of German, French, and Russian, and — his classmates still recall — a very good chess player. He showed his affection for Princeton and the class with the license plate on his RV: “49 Tiger.”

He married Tonita Jeune Pruitte Aug. 15, 1959. They enjoyed 50 years of marriage before her death in November 2009. The class extends its sympathy to Joe’s sons, Richard and John; his daughter-in-law, Karen E. Schnietz; and his granddaughters, Sophie Schnietz and Rose Faucher.