James Bailey Seelye, 62, died Thursday at his home in Bryn Mawr.
He was born in Harrisburg and graduated in 1943 from St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H. He received a degree in mechanical engineering from Yale University in 1949. He served in the Army Air Corps and was commissioned second lieutenant as a radar navigator and bombardier in 1945, serving until 1946.
In 1948, he joined First Troop Philadelphia City Calvary and was activated in 1950 as a first lieutenant in the 28th Division of the Pennsylvania National Guard. He served in Germany until 1952.
Since then, he worked as treasurer of the Budd Co., as an officer at Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. in New York and as a vice president of Provident National Bank.
For many years he served on the board of the Overbrook School for the Blind. In addition to the First Troop, he was a member of the State in Schuylkill and the Philadelphia Club.
Survivors: two sons, Theodore and John; two daughters, Ann Seelye Lay and Joan Seelye Biddle; one sister, and three grandchildren.
Services: memorial services, 4 p.m. Wednesday, St. Thomas Church, Whitemarsh.
Published in The Philadelphia Inquirer on July 31, 1988
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