Vernon Boyd Farr ’41

Vern died May 3, 2005.

A graduate of the Hun School, at Princeton he majored in chemical engineering and chemistry. He played freshman football and joined Key & Seal Club, where he was first secretary and then vice president. He roomed variously with Arnold, Farrington, Tolles, and E. S. Davis '40.

Enlisting in the Marines in 1942, Vern went through OCS, but was then released to the Navy, where he served in the so-called Rice Paddy Navy, training and arming Chinese guerillas in Free China behind Japanese lines.

Always in sales engineering, in 1952 Vern joined Indiana General Corp., a manufacturer of magnetic materials, retiring in 1985. A longtime resident of Medford Lakes, N.J., he was active in community affairs.

Vern was predeceased by his first wife, Patricia Thomson Farr, but is survived by his wife of just over nine months, Jane V. Farr; his son, Kim; two stepsons, John and Patrick Barnett; seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

The Class of 1941