Howard Kestenbaum worked on the 103rd floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. He was killed during the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Mr. Kestenbaum, 56, was a senior vice president in charge of Aon Corp.'s risk analysis group. He was born in Newark and grew up in Maplewood, where he graduated from Columbia High School in 1963. He earned a bachelor's degree from Williams College in Massachusetts and a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University.
His brother, Stuart, said last week that when he and Howard were growing up in Maplewood, he looked upon his older brother -- who excelled in athletics and school -- as a star. But listening to people at a memorial held for Mr. Kestenbaum last month, Stuart Kestenbaum marveled at "how kind and generous he had become as an adult. . . . What a beautiful man he became."
The Kestenbaums and their daughter moved to Montclair 16 years ago. Mr. Kestenbaum was an avid baseball fan who began memorizing baseball statistics when he was 8 years old and kept a 1953 team photo of the New York Yankees on the wall of his study at home.
Mr. Kestenbaum was an active member of Congregation Beth Ahm in Verona. Besides his wife and daughter, he is survived by his mother, Annete of Portland, Maine; two brothers, Herbert of Glenside, Pa., and Stuart of Deer Isle, Maine; and a sister, Susan Saffer of Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
More than 700 people attended Mr. Kestenbaum's Sept. 30 memorial.
Mr. Kestenbaum, 56, was a senior vice president in charge of Aon Corp.'s risk analysis group. He was born in Newark and grew up in Maplewood, where he graduated from Columbia High School in 1963. He earned a bachelor's degree from Williams College in Massachusetts and a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University.
His brother, Stuart, said last week that when he and Howard were growing up in Maplewood, he looked upon his older brother -- who excelled in athletics and school -- as a star. But listening to people at a memorial held for Mr. Kestenbaum last month, Stuart Kestenbaum marveled at "how kind and generous he had become as an adult. . . . What a beautiful man he became."
The Kestenbaums and their daughter moved to Montclair 16 years ago. Mr. Kestenbaum was an avid baseball fan who began memorizing baseball statistics when he was 8 years old and kept a 1953 team photo of the New York Yankees on the wall of his study at home.
Mr. Kestenbaum was an active member of Congregation Beth Ahm in Verona. Besides his wife and daughter, he is survived by his mother, Annete of Portland, Maine; two brothers, Herbert of Glenside, Pa., and Stuart of Deer Isle, Maine; and a sister, Susan Saffer of Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
More than 700 people attended Mr. Kestenbaum's Sept. 30 memorial.
Howard Kestenbaum worked on the 103rd floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. He was killed during the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Mr. Kestenbaum, 56, was a senior vice president in charge of Aon Corp.'s risk analysis group. He was born in Newark and grew up in Maplewood, where he graduated from Columbia High School in 1963. He earned a bachelor's degree from Williams College in Massachusetts and a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University.
His brother, Stuart, said last week that when he and Howard were growing up in Maplewood, he looked upon his older brother -- who excelled in athletics and school -- as a star. But listening to people at a memorial held for Mr. Kestenbaum last month, Stuart Kestenbaum marveled at "how kind and generous he had become as an adult. . . . What a beautiful man he became."
The Kestenbaums and their daughter moved to Montclair 16 years ago. Mr. Kestenbaum was an avid baseball fan who began memorizing baseball statistics when he was 8 years old and kept a 1953 team photo of the New York Yankees on the wall of his study at home.
Mr. Kestenbaum was an active member of Congregation Beth Ahm in Verona. Besides his wife and daughter, he is survived by his mother, Annete of Portland, Maine; two brothers, Herbert of Glenside, Pa., and Stuart of Deer Isle, Maine; and a sister, Susan Saffer of Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
More than 700 people attended Mr. Kestenbaum's Sept. 30 memorial.
Mr. Kestenbaum, 56, was a senior vice president in charge of Aon Corp.'s risk analysis group. He was born in Newark and grew up in Maplewood, where he graduated from Columbia High School in 1963. He earned a bachelor's degree from Williams College in Massachusetts and a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University.
His brother, Stuart, said last week that when he and Howard were growing up in Maplewood, he looked upon his older brother -- who excelled in athletics and school -- as a star. But listening to people at a memorial held for Mr. Kestenbaum last month, Stuart Kestenbaum marveled at "how kind and generous he had become as an adult. . . . What a beautiful man he became."
The Kestenbaums and their daughter moved to Montclair 16 years ago. Mr. Kestenbaum was an avid baseball fan who began memorizing baseball statistics when he was 8 years old and kept a 1953 team photo of the New York Yankees on the wall of his study at home.
Mr. Kestenbaum was an active member of Congregation Beth Ahm in Verona. Besides his wife and daughter, he is survived by his mother, Annete of Portland, Maine; two brothers, Herbert of Glenside, Pa., and Stuart of Deer Isle, Maine; and a sister, Susan Saffer of Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
More than 700 people attended Mr. Kestenbaum's Sept. 30 memorial.
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