Thomas Story Jenks ’28

TOM JENKS died Dec. 2, 1991, at the Stone Gates Nursing Home in Greenville, Del. He was born in New York, and grew up in Chestnut Hill, Penn, His home had been in Chadds Ford for many years. Tom prepared for college at Lawrenceville. He left Princeton before graduation.

Tom worked for Girard Bank in Philadelphia from 1933 to 1955, and then joined his brother Morton in the investment firm of Jenks, Kirkland, Grubbs & Keir. He later worked for Hallowell, Sulzberger, Jenks & Co. He retired in 1973.

During WWII he served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army Transportation Corps. He was a member of the Philadelphia Club, the Colonial Society, the Brook Club in New York, the Northeast Harbor Fleet in Maine, and the Bath and Tennis Club in Palm Beach, Fla.

His wife, Damaris Velie, a prominent horsewoman in Chester County, died in 1975. There are three sons, Thomas Jr., Philip Velie, and Anthony West, and two grandchildren, to whom the sympathy of the Class of 1928 is expressed. Tom was buried in the Old Kennett Friends Cemetery near Chadds Ford.

The Class of 1928