Charles Coy Honsaker ’37

Having had a broken hip in 1985 and 1988 and a severe stroke in 1992, management consultant Coy Honsaker died June 25, 1997. He leaves former wife Deborah Honsaker; four children from his previous marriage to Marian, Heath, Charles III '69, Phyllis, and Peter; and three grandchildren.

An outstanding student at Haverford School, where he was on the baseball, basketball, football, and soccer teams, won the American Legion Award, took honors, and was a class officer, Coy majored in history at Princeton, graduating with high honors. He was on the freshman baseball and basketball teams, a member of the Triangle, and sports manager at Elm Club.

After Harvard Business School, he worked for Provident Trust Co. in Philadelphia. He went with the War Production Board for a short period. Next came Navy service as an ensign in the ordnance department--he was stationed around the country, largely in the field of ship arming, disarming, and preservation, and won a commendation from the Chief Bureau of Ordnance and various ribbons. He separated as lieutenant after four years.

Coy was an associate member of McKinsey and Co. for 10 years, and next held a succession of jobs as an independent management consultant, retiring in 1976 as president of Westinghouse Home Securities Systems of New England in Windsor, Conn. He moved to Vero Beach, Fla., in 1987.

The Class of 1937