Michael S. Konner ’55

Michael Konner, a mortgage banker and financial planner, died June 19, 2003, of lung and brain cancer at his home in Lake Oswego, Ore.

Michael was born and reared in Paterson, N.J. He attended Montclair Academy and the Peddie School before entering Princeton. He majored in English, writing his senior thesis on F. Scott Fitzgerald. He played on the bridge team, joined Terrace Club, and lettered in golf. Recently he was recognized as one of N.J.'s top 100 high school golfers of the 20th century. One of his fondest memories was golfing with Sam Snead at the Greenbrier in West Virginia.

Michael served in the Naval Reserve as a lieutenant and moved to Lake Oswego in 1975. Over a 40-year span, he worked for two firms, Standard Life Insurance Co. and Guardian Life Insurance Co., where he was a founding member of the million-dollar roundtable. He owned Coordinated Financial Planning Co. in Lake Oswego and, since 1998, Closing Time, a local mortgage banking business.

In addition to his wife, Claire Moran Konner, Michael is survived by three daughters from his previous marriage to Joan Segal Erath: Nancy Truax, Judy Konner, and Maggie Kean; two stepdaughters, Margaret McMahon and Maureen Davenport; and six grandchildren. The class extends its deepest sympathy to all of them.

The Class of 1955