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Francis Storer Obituary
Naples, FL
Francis E. Storer, Jr. died peacefully March 24, 2016 in Naples, FL. Son of Francis E. Storer, Sr. and Eleanor Hastings. Educated at the Browning School, St. Paul's School, Yale University, Columbia College, and Columbia University Law School. Served as a corporal in the U.S. Army Air Corps in England during WW II. Writer and editor for Argosy Magazine and Tennis USA. Faithful tennis player at the Naples Bath and Tennis Club, Naples FL.
Adored husband of the late Nancy Bruce Fulton Storer. Beloved father of Adine M.B. Storer and grandfather of Ian H. Magnusson. In lieu of flowers please send donations to Avow Hospice, 1095 Whippoorwill Lane, Naples, FL 34105.
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Bob Rowley
April 4, 2019
Out of the blue, I had a dream about Uncle Tigger two nights ago. He was young, handsome as ever and bounding around the West Side Tennis Club interviewing players and fans and then banging out his story on a typewriter, fully engaged and happy to be doing what he loved. Larger than life, animated, gregarious, inquisitive and passionate about tennis and the art of the best strokes and volleys. It has been three years since we lost him and his sister Mouse, my mom, a week later to the day. Not a day goes by when I don't think of them and my dad and all those who have gone before. They still light the day for us and come to us in our dreams. Love to you all. Wait for us.
Lesley Levine
April 20, 2016
Oh, Adine. I am so sorry. I know how close you were to your dad. You were a wonderful, caring daughter. Am thinking about you and sending love!
Andrea Black
April 11, 2016
Adine, your father was a lovely man. I remember him and your mother so fondly. Your father was always so kind and treated me like a young adult even as a pre-teen. And your parents were such an inspiration; they seemed so very happy together. I am very sorry for your loss. with love, Andrea (Inky)
Bob/Tigger in his younger days.
Storer (Bob) Rowley
April 10, 2016
Love you, Uncle Tigger. You were Tigger TIgger to me, Bob to all the world, and you were about the smartest, wisest, most decent and elegant man I ever knew.
My uncle was a huge sports enthusiast, a loving husband, a proud father and the best brother ever to my mom, Mouse Rowley, who followed him in death by only a week and talked in her final hours of their time riding bicycles in Ridgefield, Conn., together as children.
Tigger taught me how to think as much as my mother taught me how to love. They broke the mold with these two. I loved his stories of travel and tennis and the old New York he adored. I especially loved the story of how he and his wife-to-be, years before they were an item, would hang out together in the Hotel St. Pere off St. Germain in Paris back when they were just hotel-mates. He would visit Nancy Bruce Fulton and use her bath, because she had one and he didn't. She would sit on the couch reading and they would crack the door open a little and would talk and talk, comforted by one another's company -- like peas in a pod -- and years later married and lived happily in Waitsfield and Starksboro, Vt., and then in Naples, Fl., for many more happy years.
He wrote beautifully, lived nobly, made eggs for breakfast, cared for his family and died in their loving embrace.
He visited us in Chicago and Evanston when we were babies and toddlers. He took my mom, brother Davis and I to our first Red Sox games and introduced us to Mickey Mantel and Roger Marris and Carl Yazstremski and how to score a baseball game properly. He took my mom to see the Yankees after WWII in NY and they had such fun together. Late nights partying at the rectory in Ridgefield, too, when they were younger.
He hosted us in his NY bachelor apartment at 181 E. 73d Street when Dave and I were boys--and we would go down to see the tennis singles matches at Forest Hills and came to Boston when we would go to the Longwood Cricket Club for the USLTA doubles matches. He loved Bud Collins, and a great forehand drive volley.
He had a great run and we will miss him terribly. Among the last things he said about his beloved "Addie," my mom, when he was close to death, was, "I'll wait for her." He only had to wait a week until Addie joined him, and I like to think they are back riding bikes in Ridgefield together now and forever. May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest, Tigger.
All my love and respect.
Your loving nephew, Store
(he was the only one who called me that).
"Tigger" and "Mouse" 1952
Adine Storer
April 10, 2016
1941
Adine Storer
April 10, 2016
1984 at Harvard with Nancy Bruce and Adine
Adine Storer
April 10, 2016
Ridgefield - riding bikes with Sister Adelaide (Mouse Rowley)
Adine Storer
April 10, 2016
With Nancy Bruce and Adine
Adine Storer
April 10, 2016
Marriage to Nancy Bruce Fulton Storer
Adine Storer
April 10, 2016
With Nancy Bruce and grandson Ian Magnusson
Adine Storer
April 10, 2016
At St Paul's with wife Nancy Bruce
Adine Storer
April 10, 2016
Harvard 1984 with Nancy Bruce and Adine
Adine Storer
April 10, 2016
Waitsfield with Nancy Bruce and daughter Adine
Adine Storer
April 10, 2016
Ridgefield - bike riding with sister Adelaide (Mouse Rowley)
Adine Storer
April 10, 2016
Marriage to Nancy Bruce Fulton Storer
Adine Storer
April 10, 2016
At Wimbledon
Adine Storer
April 10, 2016
1941
Adine Storer
April 10, 2016
With wife, Nancy Bruce and grandson Ian H. Magnusson
Adine Storer
April 10, 2016
With Nancy Bruce at St Paul's class '41
Adine Storer
April 10, 2016
Davis Rowley
April 10, 2016
Tigger was the best uncle ever.
We will miss him.
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