Thomas Jackson Oakley Rhinelander ’44

OAK DIED of complications resulting from Parkinson's disease Dec. 2, 1989, at the Oakwood Healthcare Center in Newport, R.I. He was 69. He had been in poor health for some time, never fully recovering from a winter weather auto accident some years ago.

He came to Princeton from the Asheville and Hun Schools. His major was politics. He was on the Class squash team. He chose to room alone and withdrew from college immediately following Pearl Harbor. Tom entered the Army Air Corps, took pilot training, and fought the war in the China-Burma-India Theater earning the Distinguished Flying Cross and separating from the service after 4 1/2 years as a captain.

Oakley joined the real estate firm of Douglas L. Ellman & Co. He was one of the company's youngest directors when named V.P. in 1956. He was a director as well of the family Rhinelander Real Estate Co., continuing in commercial brokerage until retirement in 1972. A N.Y.C. landmark sale he negotiated was the coveted Dodge Mansion on Fifth Ave. and 61st St.

Surviving are his widow, Tanya (Titiana); two daughters, Jeannine Schoeffer, and Serena; a brother, LeBrun McKnight; and three grandchildren. To his family and friends our deepest sympathies.