Milford A. Koehler ’27

Mil, who died on Mar. 7, 1999, enjoyed two successful careers before his second retirement in 1970.

He spent 25 years in the U.S. Army Intelligence Service, serving in the Pacific theater during WWII, and in Alaska, Turkey, and at the Pentagon, with a year of language training at the Army Language School in California prior to the assignment in Turkey. His second career was as a math, physics, and science teacher in Northern Virginia.

Mil came to Princeton from Masten Park H.S. in Buffalo. An economics major, he played lacrosse, was active in Clio Hall, and was treas. at Key and Seal Club. His first wife, Ruth, with whom he had a son, Thomas '61, and a daughter, Pamela, died in 1960. He married Elizabeth in 1961. He leaves them, three stepchildren, six grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren, to whom the class extends its deepest sympathies.

The Class of 1927