After graduating from Mercersburg in 1940 and spending two years at Princeton, he left to join the Army Air Corps to become a navigator flying in the South Pacific on 39 missions. He came home in October 1945 to graduate from Princeton cum laude in 1946. In 1943, while in the service, he married Dorothy Jean Adams.
After several years as an FBI agent, he entered private business, working in human resources with the Ford Motor Co., Colgate Palmolive, and Celanese, and ultimately became vice president of human relations for the Chesebrough-Pond Co. He had been an elder in the Presbyterian Church since 1956. After retirement he moved to Naples, Fla., where he played lots of golf and traveled with his wife.
He is survived by his wife, Dorothy; twin daughters Carol and Linda; son Bill; nine grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.