Merritt Noxon Willits III ’29

MERRITT DIED Apr. 30, 1991. He had prepared at Germantown Friends School. At Princeton he roomed with Frank Bacon and was in Arbor Inn. He was a junior Phi Bete.

He earned his law degree at Harvard and started practice with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. He was in the Army 194245, leaving as a captain after serving as combat intelligence officer with the 15th Air Force. After the war, he joined the Philadelphia firm of Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, of which classmate John Stevens and two of his brothers were members. He became a senior partner in the firm and was itschief conveyancing officer.

In 1944 he married Sophia Hall Willits of Albany, Ga. She died in 1984, and his survivors are their four sons, Merritt N. IV, Stacey H., Thomas N., James C., Jeremy N., and daughter Stacey Willits McConnell. The Class extends its sincere sympathy to Merritt's family.

The Class of 1929