Clark Burritt Winter

WINTER-Clark Burritt, retired Senior Corporate Executive and Financial Visionary of American Express Company, died on September 30, 2006. He was 91 years old and lived in New York City and Cashiers, N.C. During World War II he served with Army Air Corps 20th Air Force out of Guam and received two Battle Stars for action in the Pacific Theatre. At the end of the war, Mr. Winter joined American Express where his varied career included responsibility for the initial planning, development and management of the American Express Card, established in 1958. He was also CEO of the then wholly-owned subsidiary Wells Fargo Armored Car Service. During the Eisenhower administration he served on the staff of the Secretary of the Treasury, George M. Humphrey, in Washington, D.C., for which he received the Department's Certificate of Merit. Mr. Winter was a graduate of Washington & Lee University, where he was elected to ODK. His first wife, Margery Forbes Winter of Denver, Colo., died in 1994 after 51 years of marriage. In 1996, he married Caroline Murphy Keller of Alexandria, La., who survives him. He was deeply loved and will be greatly missed by his children, Elizabeth Winter and John Lane, Clark and Teresa Winter, Duncan and Delphine Winter, Schuyler and Patricia Winter, his sister, Martha Winter FitzGerald, six stepchildren, twenty-seven grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Memorials may be sent to the Clark B. Winter Scholarship Fund of Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA 24450. A Memorial Service will be held on Friday, October 20, 2006, at 2 PM at St. Bartholomew's Church, Park Ave. at 51st St., N.Y.C.