Richard L. Matthews ’46
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Dick died Sept. 27, 2000, in Vero Beach, Fla., of cancer. From Lawrenceville School, he majored in mathematics at Princeton. He served in the navy as a pilot from 1943-45 in the Pacific. Graduating in 1948, he worked for Procter & Gamble and other pharmaceutical firms. He retired in 1989.
Married to Susan Winkler in 1951, he lived in Vero Beach and Nantucket, Mass. He was active in golf and yachting. His wife and two daughters, Claudia Kilvert and Lindsley Royster, and three grandchildren survive him. To them the class extends deepest sympathy.
The Class of 1946
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