Peter Charles Cohen

1937 - 2022

Peter C. Cohen, age 85, died on December 8, 2022 at the Berkshire Medical Center. He was born in Brooklyn, NY and moved to Scarsdale, NY where he attended high school before graduating from Dickinson College. His father Irving Cohen was an

entertainment attorney and mother Phyllis was a registered nurse. He served as a US Army reservist following the Korean War. He has lived in the Town of Richmond full time for about 25 years following his retirement from the Madison Ave world of

advertising where he worked for decades in the era popularized by the television series Mad Men. At Jordan, Case, McGrath, he produced many commercials which are familiar to anyone watching television who has lived from the 1950s to the present time. Following formal retirement, he joined an advertising legend to found a firm known as Avenging Angels, a firm dedicated to producing ads for liberal and progressive causes. Although unremunerative, he had a very rewarding second career. He loved the Berkshires and volunteered as a member of the Richmond Board of Health, the Assessors, the Council on Aging, the Richmond Library and most recently produced a video for the Town of Richmond which extolled the virtues of life in his adopted town. He was an amateur woodworker, building birdhouses and selling them to benefit the town's new Richmond Library.

He leaves his brother, Laurence D Cohen of Richmond, his daughter, Elissa Cohen of Norwalk, CT, son, Adam Cohen, MD and daughter-in-law Margo, in Pleasantville, NY, and also leaves granddaughters Lily, Maya and Ava, and grandson Lincoln. Services were private at the Richmond Center Cemetery. If anyone chooses to honor him, donate in his memory to support the Richmond Library.