Ted R. Branthover, Geico Executive, 86, Washington Post
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Ted R. Branthover Geico Executive
Ted Branthover, 86, a Geico executive for 35 years, died February 15, 2009,
of leukemia at his home in Rockville, Maryland.
Mr. Branthover worked for Geico Insurance from 1950 until his retirement in
1985. He retired as vice president of claims for Equitable General Insurance
Co., a Geico subsidiary based in Fort Worth, Texas. For a short time before
his retirement, he commuted to Fort Worth.
Theodore Ross Branthover was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and lived in
Wakefield, Massachusetts, until his family moved to Greensburg,
Pennsylvania, in 1929 and then to the District [Washington DC] in 1936. He
graduated from Western High School in 1940.
Immediately after his graduation, he worked at Garfinkel's department store
and then for the Library of Congress, where he nurtured his lifelong love of
reading. During World War II, he enlisted in the Army Air Forces, serving as
a member of the Signal Corps. He served in Naples, Italy; Lyon, France; and
Kaiserslautern, Germany. At the time of Germany's surrender to the Allied
forces, he was stationed in Marseilles, France, and was scheduled for
deployment to Burma, but Japan surrendered before he was shipped out.
After the war, he enrolled at American University under the G.I. Bill and
received his undergraduate degree in 1947. He received his law degree from
Catholic University in 1951.
Mr. Branthover was a member of Rockville Presbyterian Church for more than
50 years. He also was a member of the Optimist Club of Rockville, where he
served as co-president along with his wife, Donna Metcalf Branthover. An
avid golfer, he belonged to Lakewood Country Club and later Montgomery
Village Golf Club. For many years, he and his wife chaired the charity golf
tournament for Children's Hospital. He also was an active supporter of the
Brave Dave charity golf tournament for multiple sclerosis research. He loved
coaching his sons' baseball teams.
Survivors include his wife of 61 years, of Rockville; six children, Lynne
Komai of Alexandria, Virginia, Ted Branthover of Chevy Chase, Maryland, Ned
Branthover of New York, New York, Jean Benham of Charlotte, North Carolina,
Tom Branthover of Kensington and Robert Branthover of Berkeley Heights, New
Jersey; a sister; and 15 grandchildren.
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Joe Holley