Lon Hocker ’31

Lon Hocker died Jan. 31, 2007.

He prepared at St. Louis (Mo.) Country Day School. After graduating from Princeton, he attended Washington University School of Law and was active in his profession both as counsel to his firm and politically, running for governor of Missouri in 1956 and for U.S. Senate in 1960.

At Princeton he was well known in intercollegiate fencing as well as in international competition. Lon was musically active in the choir and Triangle Club. At the Mount Holly summer semi-reunions, Lon led the songs for the 60 or so classmates who regularly attended. In his retirement, Lon lived in Woods Hole, Mass.

His son, Lon III, graduated from Princeton in 1964, and Lon’s brother, E.B. “Berry” Hocker, was in the Class of 1929. To his widow, Esther, and the rest of his family, the class extends its condolences on the loss of a truly delightful, charming companion.