Egon W. Loffel

June 4, 1921 - February 15, 2020

Smithtown, NY – Egon William Loffel Sr., age 98, departed this life on Saturday February 15, 2020. He is survived by his wife of 72 years Lillian Gabsa Loffel, his sister Johanna Wachter and his three children, Egon William Loffel, Andrea Calandrino and Erika Linden. Egon was born in Pfinztal-Berghausen Germany on June 4, 1921 and was an enthusiastic New Yorker since his arrival in 1927. His mother succumbed to tuberculosis in 1929 and he grew up at Greer School; a NY State orphanage. Here he went on to found the school newspaper and wrote his HS yearbook. Egon enlisted in the US Army during WWII and was stationed in Saipan. Here he managed to create a photographic studio from an abandoned bunker where he created top quality photographs of his entire company for them to send home. Egon pursued a successful career as a writer, editor and poet and has written several books on business and art in his spare time. In the 1960’s he would bring his children to his Manhattan office at Forbes one by one on the train, decades before it was popular. He also befriended many Greenwich Village artists and would bring their works home on the train to sell at his Art Parties. He was never one to follow the crowd. Everything he did was with his own creative personal style, thereby inspiring all those that had the good fortune of knowing him. His rapier wit and sense of humor found amusement in everything he encountered; good, bad and everything in between. His fun loving supportive wisdom will be missed by all.