Randall Fay Sawyer ’25

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Ran Sawyer was born in Flushing, N.Y., Sept. 7, 1903, and died Jan. 13, 1994, in the Clara Burke Nursing Home in Pennsylvania. He attended Montclair [N.J.] H.S. and at Princeton was a member of the Court Club.

After graduation he worked for GMAC in Montclair and later joined Wyeth Laboratories in Radnor, Penn., and as office manager, retired after 30 years of service in 1963. He was an avid outdoorsman and as a Boy Scout leader taught fly-tying to budding fishermen. He also served as a volunteer at Chestnut Hill Hospital and worked for Burpee Seed Co. in their summer senior program. He was a member of the Church of St. Jude and the Nativity in Lafayette Hill.

His wife, Margaret, predeceased him. Surviving are a son, Randall Jr., a daughter, Margaret Stone, five grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren.

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