Orus J. Matthews ’59

Jay died Dec. 5, 2018, in Louisville, Colo., after several years of declining health caused by Huntington’s disease.

Jay came to Princeton from Episcopal Academy in Newtown Square, Pa. He majored in economics, joined Elm Club, and became active in club athletics and the Outing Club.

Married upon graduation in June 1959, Jay and his bride headed West, where they spent 16 months working on dude ranches in Wyoming and Arizona, until the draft board became interested in Jay’s future, and he joined the Army Reserve. Released after six months, Jay took a job in Denver as a margin clerk with Boettcher & Co., a regional brokerage firm, where he remained for 18 years, retiring from the firm in 1980 as a member of its executive committee and a director.

Divorced in 1975, Jay re-married in 1980 and began a new career in real estate as Western regional manager for American Republic Realty Corp., retiring from that position sometime in the 1990s. His second marriage having ended in divorce, Jay married for a third time in 1995. He and wife Marianne enjoyed many years of horseback riding and travel.

Jay is survived by his wife, Marianne; two daughters from his first marriage; his brother, Frederick ’61; a half-sister; and five grandchildren. We have sent condolences.