Honore Martyn Owen Jr. ’51

Marty was born Oct. 23, 1929, in Decatur, Ill., to H.M. Owen ’24 and Virginia Hunt Owen.

He graduated from Phillips Exeter in 1947. At Princeton he earned his degree in the Woodrow Wilson School and was a member of Ivy and Orange Key. He played lacrosse and roomed with George Hawke, Mike Mahoney, and Tony Orser.

In the fall of 1951, Marty and 24 other members of ’51 enrolled as first-year students at Harvard Law School. He married Candace Benjamin in 1952. Marty earned a law degree in 1954 and then served in the Navy for three years.

In 1957 he became an associate with Shipman & Goodwin, a Hartford, Conn., firm, and the family moved to Simsbury, Conn. Marty practiced at Shipman & Goodwin for 38 years; the firm had 11 lawyers when he joined and 150 when he retired as a senior partner in 1995.

The family spent their summers in Small Point, Maine, and in 1996 he and his wife moved to nearby Brunswick.

Marty died March 23, 2015. He was predeceased by his wife, Candie, who died in 2010. He is survived by his children, Leslie, Peter, and Douglas; six grandchildren, including Ben Dear ’10; and his sister, Virginia Schoder.