Louis Wilbur Ochs Jr. ’45

Lou died of cancer on Nov. 10, 2000, in Memphis. Lou entered Princeton from St. Louis Country Day School and was active in many sports and other extracurricular activities. He was a member of the freshman soccer team, the 150-lb. crew and joined the Triangle and the Glee Clubs. He was a member of Elm.

His Princeton career was interrupted by service as a torpedo officer on the destroyer USS John W. Thomason with the Third Fleet in the Pacific theater. He returned to Princeton to take a degree in English in 1944. He then joined the D'Arcy Advertising Agency in St. Louis. He married the former Patricia Anne Roberts in 1949. They divorced in 1976. In 1958 Lou moved to Memphis, continuing in advertising, sales, and sales management with the Hager Hinge Co., from which he retired in 1989.

Lou was an avid hunter, fisher, and boatsman. He is survived by his second wife, Annah, his sons, Louis W. III and Jeff, two sisters, and two grandchildren, to all of whom the class expresses its sympathy.

The Class of 1945