Patrick Wood Flournoy Jr. ’42

Pat died Aug. 25, 1996, in Sarasota, Fla., after a long and debilitating bout with Parkinson's disease. It was first diagnosed while at his summer home in Denver in 1989. As a result, he sold his home there and spent his remaining years at his winter home in Sarasota, Fla.

Pat attended Andover before coming to Princeton, where he majored in modern languages and was a member of Tower Club. He left at the end of junior year and spent four and a half years in the Army Air Corps, finishing up as a 1st lieutenant.

After the war he returned to his native Charleston, W.Va., and joined the family hardware wholesale business, Charleston Hardware Co. He worked his way up through the organization, ultimately becoming president. Although he never married, he was quite philosophical on that point and devoted his energies to tennis and skiing, as well as managing the family enterprise.

To his cousins, Morris S. Flournoy, Mrs. Stephen MacGregor, Mrs. John W. Powell, and Mrs. Donald E. Dunbar, the class offers its most sincere condolences.

The Class of 1942