Richard B. Neiley Jr. ’48

Dick died Dec. 30, 2017, at home in Doylestown, Pa. He was 91.

He was born in Winchester, Mass. He came to us from the Lawrenceville School and entered Princeton in the summer of 1944. He was in the Navy V-12 program on campus for two years, majored in history, and was a member of Dial Lodge.

He and his wife, Patricia, and the family first lived in northern New Jersey and in Swarthmore, Pa., before settling in Doylestown. Dick served on the boards of the YMCA and of the local hospital, and founded a community health group called Bucks Alive. His business career was in property and casualty insurance. A notable achievement was his design of a home-insurance program especially for minority families in Philadelphia. Dick was an avid fisherman in the Elizabeth Islands on the New England coast and in Belize. He was a knowledgeable jazz fan and had a big record collection. He also researched the genealogy of the Neiley family back to Colonial times.

Dick and Patricia were married for 66 years. She survives him, as do their daughters, Ellen Neiley Ritter and Carol Neiley Baxter, and four grandchildren.