William Arthur Ehret ’38

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Bill died Aug. 23, 2001, at The Medical Center in Princeton. Born in Trenton, he lived in Pennington before moving to Lawrenceville. Bill graduated from Lawrenceville School. He then entered Princeton but left in his sophomore year.

He served in WWII as an Army first lieutenant in Fontainebleau, France. Bill then started as a foreman at Eastern Aircraft, a subsidiary of General Motors, and later made his career supervising the building of hotels and hospitals in the East and Midwest.

Bill's son, William C. Ehret II, predeceased him. He is survived by his wife, Jacqueline Raymond Ehret, a daughter, Penelope Stout, two sons, Robert W. '67 and Prentice R., six grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren, a sister, three brothers, and nieces and nephews, to all of whom the class extends its sympathy.

The Class of 1938

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