Adam J. Alt Jr., 101, of Pittstown, formerly of Livingston, died Saturday, June 8, at Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington.
Mr. Alt was born in Newark in 1917. After graduating from high school, he began work at the Wilbur B. Driver Company as an office boy. In 1942, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served for four years as a second lieutenant, spending two years in the Persian Gulf.
After the war, he returned to W.B. Driver and worked his way up to vice president of production. In 1973, he and his wife Ruth transferred to Orangeburg, S.C., where he managed the GTE Company, which was later bought by Verizon. He retired in 1979.
Adam married Ruth Engeman in 1941. They raised eight children in Livingston before moving to Bernardsville in 1963. He also lived in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
Mr. Alt was predeceased by his wife in 2007 after 66 years of marriage. He was also predeceased by his three brothers, Charles, Norman, and Edward Alt.