T. Williamson Wilson ’29

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Bill died Aug. 12, 1994. He prepared at Columbia H.S. in South Orange. At Princeton, his roommates were Ralph Ely '28 and Christo Starche. He worked at New Jersey Bell as an engineer for 40 years. During the war, he was an aviation radar officer in the Navy, retiring as a lt. commander. He was a deacon of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in South Orange, and was extremely active in Scouting and other work with young people.

In 1969, he retired and began living on his 32-foot ketch, BESSIE W., which he sailed throughout the Bahamas and the Florida Keys for 20 years. He never married, and his only survivors are a niece and two nephews. To them, the class extends its sympathy.

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