Lawrence C. Ford ’36

Larry died Aug. 17, 2003. He was 89.

After graduation from the Lawrenceville School, he majored in political science at Princeton, where he was a member of Cannon Club. During WWII he served four years in the Army in Africa and India. He retired in 1946 as a major.

Larry retired from Chevron Corp. in 1978 after spending five decades there. For more than 20 years he was president of Chevron Shipping Co. In that capacity he served all of Chevron's international operations and was honored as the American Petroleum Institute's "Man of the Year." He helped in christening many tankers in foreign ports.

An avid golfer, Larry played on many of the world's great courses. He was the longest-standing member of the SF Golf Club and the Pacific Club, and was the last surviving member of the Honker Farms Duck Club.

Larry married Janet Ditz in 1937 and she predeceased him in 1995. He is survived by his second wife, Mary Fills; two of his three children, Janet F. Crandall and Lawrence C. Ford Jr.; grandchildren Jane Richardson, Cyn-thia Carroll, Charlotte Tracy, Peter and Ethan Ford, and Bill '87, Robert, John, and Russell Crandall; and eight great-grandchildren.

The Class of 1936