Theodore Borstel Keer ’36

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TEDDIED July 6,1990, in Newark, NJ., where he lived all of his life. For a good part of his adult life he suffered from an advance diabetes, which imposed severe restrictions on his activities.

He graduated from Lawrenceville, and at Princeton majored in philosophy and was a member of Colonial Club. He left Princeton in his senior year. In WWII he served three years in the Western Pacific theater as an armorer for an aircraft in the U.S. Air Force.

Ted worked several years as a freelance photographer specializing in action albums of the then (1930s)

fastdisappearing steam locomotives, until forced by his illness to retire from this activity.

In 1969 Ted married Nancy Goertz of South Orange, NJ. She predeceased him June 10, 1990. He is survived by brothers Alexander W. Keer'34 and Frederick Keer.

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