Theodore Eugene Briell Jr. ’34

Ted Briell, who described himself not long ago as becoming a "mechanical man: first, spectacles; second, hearing aid, one in each ear; third, hip replacement; fourth, pace-

maker; fifth, ?," died Jan. 2, 2006, it has just been learned. He was 94 and had lived in Bloomington, Ill., since 1995.

Ted grew up in St. Louis, where he was born and where he worked before World War II at the family manufacturing business, Briell-Rodgers Cotton Goods Co., which made uniforms for the linen-supply industry. He served in the Army for 62 months, ending up as 86th Infantry Division ordnance officer. After the war, he returned to St. Louis and what he called "the rag business," which he sold in 1963. He worked as a manufacturer's agent until he retired in 1980.

Ted married Dorothy "Dottie" Kirchner, an alumna of Washington University in St. Louis, in 1939, and the couple had one daughter, Judy B. Aldridge. Dottie died in 2002.

The Class of 1934