Lawrence Shipley Munson (1920 - 2016)

Born 10 Jan 1920 in Brooklyn N.Y.

Ancestors

Son of Lauritz Josias (Andresen) Munson and Anne Jorgine (Lee) Munson

Husband of Margarethe Maria Charlotte Thannhauser — married 24 May 1947 in Cambridge, Mass.

Descendants

Died 27 Mar 2016 at age 96 in Salt Lake City, UT

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His obituary is posted at https://www.easthamptonstar.com/archive/lawrence-munson-management-consultant

see his recollections at our family history site kittymunson.com

Larry is a graduate of Garden City High School (NY), Harvard University '42, Harvard Law '46. He achieved the rank of major in the Air Force in WWII, mainly stationed in Hawaii. He practiced law briefly before being recalled during the Korean War. His assignment was to refurbish US Air fields in England for jet planes. Afterwards he went into management consulting and worked for many years at McKinsey and Co. He was also the president of Loral Corp, a senior vice president at Alleghany Power Corp and finally a management consultant again for Louis Allen Associates and eventually in his retirement years, a self employed management training consultant.

His charity endeavors included chairman of the board of NY Planned Parenthood, the Greater NY Fund, and the East Hampton Village Improvement Society. The latter society gave him a lifetime acheivement award in recognition of his role in organizing a group and raising the money to bring a medical facility to East Hampton.

In his final years, he lived in an assisted facility, Brookdale, near his son and family in Salt Lake City UT

Acknowledgments

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