Weir Stewart Jr. ’45

Stew died Jan. 7, 2014, after a short illness.

He entered Princeton from The Hill School, following in the footsteps of his father, Weir Stewart 1915, and ahead of his brother, Thomas ’51. Stew joined Cottage Club, but his Princeton education was interrupted for service with the 10th Mountain Division. He saw combat in Italy and was awarded the Bronze Star and a Purple Heart.

Returning to Princeton, Stew received a degree in philosophy in 1947 and married Deborah “Dee Dee” Brockway in 1949. Stew joined the family shoe-manufacturing corporation in Auburn, N.Y., but moved to Connecticut in 1959 where he continued an investment career with a seat on the New York Stock Exchange.

In the 1970s, he started raising beef cattle and then settled into dairy farming in Copake Falls, N.Y. Stew was active in his community, and served on the board of Union Theological Seminary.

Dee Dee died in 2007. Stew is survived by daughters Deborah, Pamela, Margaret, and Penney; son Weir III; and by numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The class expresses its sympathy to the family.