Pompeo Henry Maresi ’34

PEO (SONNY) MARESI, who led, in the words of those nearest to him, "a good, disciplined life of service to his family, friends, and many causes," died of cancer Feb. 8. A former resident of Lake Como, Italy, he lived for the past eight years principally in Berwickshire, Scotland.

Through the years Peo was a generous supporter of the American Farm School in Greece, Atlantic College in Wales, Cornell, Swarthmore (his wife Phebe's alma mater), and several other institutions here and abroad. In 1989 Princeton received a gift amounting to nearly $3 million from the sale of Peo's family home on Lake Como.

In WWII he served 31 months as a lieutenant and signal officer on the U.S.S. PENNSYLVANIA. After the war, he divided his time between homes in Delray Beach and Tuxedo Park, N.Y. The family moved permanently to Lake Como in 1954.

Besides Phebe (Cornell), whom he married in 1933, Peo leaves five children: Henry J. Maresi, Cassandra M. Biachini, Phebe Ann Beliard, Alice Maresi, and Beatrice Ememann, twins, and nine grandchildren. To them we offer our sincere sympathy.

The Class of 1934