Orson D. Munn Jr. ’47

Orson Munn died Aug. 25, 2011, at his home in Southampton, N.Y. He was 86.

Orson was very much a man of his generation. He attended Lawrenceville before entering Princeton in 1943, where he enrolled in the Navy V-12 program. After receiving his commission, he served as an officer on a torpedo boat. He returned to Princeton, graduated in 1948, and married Patricia Geoghegan the same year.

He began a very successful investment career at Wood Walker & Co. and became its CEO and chairman of the executive committee. He founded Orson Munn & Co. in 1983 and subsequently merged his firm with Bernhard Associates to create Munn Bernhard & Associates in 1990. He retired in 2007.

Orson was a great sportsman, well known as a star fisherman and an excellent waterfowl and upland game shooter.

He served on the Southampton Village Board of Trustees for 19 years (1967-1986) and was responsible for the creation of many of the parks in the village.

Orson’s most outstanding characteristic was his love for Patricia and their two children, Linda and Orson III. He is survived by them and by his daughter-in-law, Christine; and four grandchildren, to whom the class extends its deepest sympathy.