Andrew Marshall King

A Real Golfer

A lot of the Cantor Fitzgerald crowd played golf. And a lot of them were good at it. But Andrew M. King was REALLY, REALLY good. He had a four handicap and had shot three holes-in-one. "He had a beautiful swing," said his wife, Judy King.

Mr. King, 42, a bond trader, played the world's great courses, but last summer he led his wife and three children, 14 other family members, and his best friend, Tom Pritchard, to golf nirvana ‹ the storied St. Andrew's in Scotland. "We teed off, and Andrew said, `We're here!' " said his sister- in-law, Jackie Szafara.

It was typical of Mr. King that he had been the one to organize the trip. "He was the head-in-law," Ms. Szafara said. "The family get-together started when Andrew got there."

And while he left his home in Princeton at 5:30 a.m. for the World Trade Center, and often entertained clients until midnight, he never missed a family gathering.

He spotted his future wife at the Denver airport 16 years ago, and talked his way into the limousine she and her friends were taking to Vail for a skiing vacation. "I thought, `Oh, God, he's so cute, he's so nice,' " Mrs. King, 41, recalled. Skiing with him the next day ‹ watching him ski, he was a superb skier ‹ she was hooked.

They would have celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary last week.

"I never saw him down in his life," Ms. Szafara said. "It was always how great Judy was, how great the kids were, how great the house was."

Profile published in THE NEW YORK TIMES on November 25, 2001.


St. Charles native Andrew King, 42, worked as a currency trader for the financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald, a career that started at the Chicago Board of Trade and eventually brought him to Philadelphia and then New York.

An avid golfer, trap shooter, skier and fly fisherman, King was athletic, sports minded and competitive, friends and family said. A memorial service was held over the weekend in Princeton, N.J., where King lived with his wife and three children.

"He was a boisterous, happy and energetic person," said his childhood friend, Steve Hansen, who also lived with King in Chicago after college.

The youngest of Wesley and Joan King's three children, King went to elementary school in St. Charles and attended high school at Elgin Academy. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and eventually returned to Chicago and became a member of the Board of Trade. With his wife, Judy, he moved to Philadelphia and worked as a currency trader there, Hansen said.

King, who usually got to the office around 8 a.m., was in the World Trade Center when the first plane slammed into it and he called his wife to say he was on his way down, his father, Wesley, said. "He was in the same place the last time a bomb hit that place," his father said.