Willis Frederick Loeffel ’36 *37
Bill died June 19, 2001. He was 86. He prepared at Dickinson HS in Jersey City, N.J. At Princeton he received two degrees, graduating with honors with a BSE degree in chemical engineering and a master's in 1937.
He was employed by E.I. DuPont for some 41 years and retired in 1978. Most of that time he held management positions at the Belle Plant in West Virginia. He was a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He lived in Charleston for 40 years. In 1986 he moved to Marietta, Ga.
Bill married Virginia Noland in 1945. She died in 1995. Their son Samuel died in 2000.
He is survived by his daughter, Christina, and her husband, Conn Rickey, daughter-in-law Nancy Kemp Loeffel, and grandchildren William, David, Daniel, Kate, and Brendan.
The Class of 1936
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