Mr. Case grew up in West Philadelphia and helped support his family from a young age, his niece, Marcia Field, said. He was a paperboy, and in high school and college, he worked in the ticket booth for the Pennsylvania & Western trolley line on 69th Street.
He graduated from West Philadelphia High School in 1930, earned a bachelor's degree in business at night from what is now Drexel University, and then worked for DuPont Co. in Wilmington for two years.
In 1942, he enlisted in the Navy and served as a signalman aboard a net tender in Casco Bay, Maine. The ship laid and maintained antisubmarine and anti-torpedo nets. While on leave in Boston, he met Marjorie Cohan at a USO social. They married in March 1945.
Mr. Case and his wife lived in Lafayette Hill for years until 1998, when they moved to Brittany Pointe Estates, a retirement community in Lansdale.
He loved to travel, his niece said, and every year he and his wife took a long trip. After she died in 2001, he traveled with friends. He visited Iceland and South America in 2003, traveled to Greece, Turkey, and Italy in 2005, and cruised down the Amazon River in Brazil in 2007.
Mr. Case was a longtime member of the Union League and the Philadelphia Securities Association.
In addition to his niece, he is survived by a sister, Elizabeth Herbster; a nephew, Richard Case; and five great-nieces and great-nephews.
A memorial service will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22, at Huff & Lakjer Funeral Home, 701 Derstine Ave., Lansdale. Friends may call at 12:30 p.m. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, West Conshohocken.
Donations may be made to the Abraham Lincoln Foundation, Union League of Philadelphia, 140 S. Broad St., Philadelphia 19102. The foundation conserves the Union League's historical collection.
Contact staff writer Sally A. Downey at 215-854-2913 or sdowney@phillynews.com.
