ALLAN NEWMARK

1929 - 2022

NEWMARK--Allan Jay, age 93, formerly of Chappaqua, NY, and more recently of The Greens in Greenwich, CT passed away on November 18, 2022. He was born to Saul and Ella Newmark and grew up in Manhattan. Allan was a graduate of Horace Mann, Harvard College, and Harvard Law School, from which he graduated at age 23. He served in the Air Force during the Korean War prior to becoming an attorney. Allan abandoned the law early in his career and became an investment banker and merchant banker who dreamed up new uses for technology and created his own telecommunications companies. He was known in business for his creative dealmaking that took him all over the world. His family remembers him as a voracious reader, an early adopter of all sorts of home technology, a lover of dogs, and a father who was always there to support his children. Allan was predeceased by his sister June and his wife of 65 years, Betty Anne, and he is survived by his three children: Amy (William Rouhana) of Greenwich, CT, Andrew (Catherine) of Naples, FL, and Abby of Ossining, NY. He was the proud grandfather of Michael Damiano (Emily Oot), Ella Damiano (Joshua Elliott), Peter Newmark, and Carolyn Newmark, and step-grandfather of Timothy Rouhana and Rosemary Rouhana (Joseph Weiss). He had five great-grandchildren. Burial was private.