Truman D. Boyles ’48

Tru died Feb. 19, 2015, in College Station, Texas, at age 88.

Plainfield, N.J., was his hometown, the family residence, and site of his medical practice. He was a prominent member of ’48 and had many close Princeton friends — a picture of eight of them hung on his study wall.

After graduating in 1949, he attended medical school (as had his father and an older brother) at the University of Western Ontario. He then had a residency in urology at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, where he met Mary Alice Delaney. They were together from their marriage in 1954 until her death in 2001. They raised eight children, all of whom survive him: daughters Michelle, Megan, Moira, Cathy, and Ciaran; and sons Truman Jr., Thomas, and James. Tru also is survived by 19 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

For many years Nantucket Island was a “special refuge” for the whole Boyes family. Tru fished often for striped bass and bluefish. But he spent even more “leisure” time on the Island as a homemaker — literally. He told us that he had “built or supervised [construction of] five houses and one renovation.” The class remembers, with thanks, our pleasure of being in Tru’s company.