Newton Clark Williams ’28

NEWT WILLIAMS died July 10, 1993, at the Tuality Community Hospital in Hillsboro, Oreg., near his home in Forest Grove. He grew up in New Jersey and prepared at Hotchkiss School. He was with us at Princeton for freshman year.

Newt worked in the oil fields of Pennsylvania for Pennzoil Corp. for 10 years. He married Mary Ann Fobes Mar. 2, 1934. They went to California in 1949, where he was a traffic engineer for San Bernadino County. He retired in 1969. He also grew oranges, and was director of Redlands Cooperative Fruit Assn.

After retiring, Newt and Mary Ann moved to Borrego Springs, Calif., and he pursued his hobby of photography. A slide show of his pictures is on display at the visitors center of Anza Borrego Desert State Park. He and Mary Ann planned and planted the garden on the park grounds. They founded the Anza Borrego Desert Natural History Assn.

They moved to Forest Grove near Portland, Oreg., in 1989, and were members of St. Bede's Episcopal Church In later life, Newt had trouble with his eyes, suffered from detached retinas, and was completely blind for the last nine years of his life.

Newt is survived by his widow, son Myron, daughter Mary Ann Foster, and eight grandchildren. The sympathy of the class is with his family.

The Class of 1928