Jacques A. Peel (Jack Day), 94, died October 4, 2014, in his home at Stonebridge at Montgomery in Skillman, New Jersey.

Jack was born in Palatka, Florida, in 1920 and grew up in Palatka and, for two years, San Francisco, California. He served in the U.S. Navy in World War II. After the war, he enrolled at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on the G.I. Bill, graduating with a B.S. in Commerce in 1948.

After graduating, he was employed by General Electric Co. as a tax accountant. He worked for GE his entire professional career, thirty seven years, until his retirement in 1985.

Jack married Margaret E. Delaney in 1951, in her home town of Saratoga Springs, New York. He lived briefly in Saratoga Springs and Schenectady, New York, and Oak Park, Illinois, before moving to Syracuse, New York in 1953, where he and Margaret lived and raised a family in the village of Solvay.

He served as a member of the vestry at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Syracuse, was President of the St. Cecilia's Parent-Teacher Association, and was a founding contributor to the Solvay Youth Center.

In 1970 he accepted a position in GE's international tax division in New York City, and moved his family to Princeton Junction, New Jersey. Both before and after retirement he enjoyed golf, tennis, and swimming, maintained an avid interest in good government and social justice, voted in every election, and contributed generously to organizations devoted to humanitarian goals.

He was a faithful and devoted son and husband, a generous father and grandfather, and a good neighbor and citizen.

Predeceased by his wife, Margaret D. Peel, in 2006, he is survived by two sons, Mark E. Peel and David J. Peel, and daughter, Elizabeth Thomas; their spouses, Anne M. Zeman, Will Peel, and Robert Thomas; and by two grandchildren, Ann L. Thomas and Samuel D. Thomas.

Cremation services were private.