Clyde A. Mauger, Jr., 100, died peacefully at his home in Chadds
Ford on Dec. 4, 2010.
Bud, as he was known to family and friends, was born August 31,
1910 in Philadelphia, to Clyde A. and Elizabeth McLaughlin Mauger. He was
raised in Norwood. He graduated from Glen-Nor High School and attended Penn State University majoring in business.
Bud began his business career with Butler Oil Corporation in southwest
Philadelphia as a dispatcher. On June 27,1942 he married Evelyn Susan Buchanan
to whom he was married for 55 years.
During WWlI, he served as a captain with the 34th Troop Carriers
Squadron and the 315th Troop Carrier Regiment of the Army Air Corp. He was
stationed in London and North Africa from October 1942 until June of 1945. Mr.
Mauger served on numerous boards and organizations. He was a member and past
president of the Lansdowne-Aldan School Board, the Aldan Board of Health. He
was a member and president of the Lansdowne-Darby Rotary Club.
He was a member of the Pennsylvania Petroleum Association, also
serving as president. Mr. Mauger was instrumental in creating the Petroleum
Marketers Education Association, serving as chairman. He was a member of the
National Oil Jobbers Association. In 1964 he formed Mauger and Company, a
gasoline distributorship. He also purchased Simpson Oil Company in Malvern and
Walker Oil Company in Nottingham. He continued working there along with his
son, Clyde A. Mauger III until his early nineties.
In 2005, he married Patience McGowan of Honolulu, Hawaii, formerly
of Clifton Heights. Bud loved the outdoors and animals. He was an amateur
steeplechase jockey, riding for other owners and on his own horse Clay Pigeon
at the Rose Tree and Radnor Hunt Clubs. He bred and sold English Cocker
Spaniels. He loved spending time with his family fishing and boating at his
summer home on Long Beach Island.
He is survived by his devoted and loving wife Patti, daughter
Nancy Robinson and her husband Phil and daughter-in-law Lynnette Mauger; six
grandchildren, Clyde A. Mauger IV and wife Jan, Kristin Hyland and husband
John, Zachary Mauger and wife Kim, Lindsay Robinson, Kyle Robinson, and Jenna
Robinson; seven great-grandchildren, Regan and Rylee Mauger, Kelsey, Patric,
and Kieran Hyland, and Hope and Eden Mauger.
He was predeceased by his first wife, Evelyn and son Clyde A.
Mauger, III He influenced many lives and will be genuinely missed by his family
and those who knew him.
Relatives and friends are invited to his funeral service 10 a.m.
Friday, December 10, 2010 at St. John's Episcopal Church 576 Concord Rd., Glen
Mills. Interment will be held at Edgewood Memorial Park in Glen Mills.
Visitation will be held from 9 to 10 a.m. on Friday at St. John's Episcopal
Church. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be sent to The Leukemia &
Lymphoma Society, P.O. Box 4072 Pittsfield, MA 01202 and/or St. John's
Episcopal Church, 576 Concord Rd., Glen Mills, PA 16340 Arrangements by
DellaVecchia, Reilly, Smith & Boyd Funeral Home, Inc., 610-696-1181, www.DellaFH.com.
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