HAROLD KURZMAN

1936 - 2023

KURZMAN--Harold P., died peacefully on February 16, 2023 at the age of 86 in hospice care in Ft. Myers, Florida. Harold was born on December 14, 1936 to Eleanor Hess and Harold P. Kurzman Sr. and grew up in New York City. He was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Haverford College, and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. For many years he served as a foreign service officer with the U.S. State Department's Agency for International Development and subsequently as a transportation economist for Louis Berger Consultants. Harold lived and worked throughout the world, including in Zimbabwe, Malawi, Brazil, Argentina, Uganda, Turkey, the Philippines and Cameroon. Harold retired to Naples, Florida where he served as the Vice-Chair for the Coordinating Board of the Collier County Para-transit System; an award-winning photographer with the Naples Camera Club; and a volunteer for the Lee County Food Pantry. Moreover, he proudly donated platelets to the local blood bank for the past 18 years. Harold was predeceased by his loving wife, Udine Bowen Kurzman, and is survived by their two children, Cecelia M. Kurzman and Philip S. Kurzman, of California. He was the devoted grandfather of Dashiell and Roman Lacgalvis, and of Noelle and Sydney Kurzman, and the loving father-in-law of Jennifer Kurzman and the late Nikolas Lacgalvis. Harold is also survived by his brother and sister-in-law, Paul and Margaret Kurzman, and his cousins, Alfred and Joan deGraaff.