William Louis Taggart Jr. ’36

Bill died June 6, 2002. He was 88. His father was in the Class of 1911.

After graduating from Phillips Andover Academy, Bill majored in politics and was a member of Tiger Inn at Princeton. He became president, succeeding his father in 1945, of the Colonial Banking Co. of Grand Rapids, Mich. For many years he was a board member of Morewood Realty Co. of NYC. He was a former warden of the Episcopal Church Vestry of Grand Rapids.

Bill is survived by his wife of 60 years, the former Dorothy Dupuy, daughters Marion Silliman, Susan Ruhl, Lillian Andrews, and Ann Gordon, as well as 10 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.

Bill lived a full and productive life. He indeed will be missed.

The Class of 1936