My father Kenneth Quinn managed a family agribusiness in Iowa, from the 1960s to his death in 1988 at age 61. Along the way, he got to know John Pappajohn, a wealthy businessman and philanthropist who was well-known in Iowa (for example, the University of Iowa business school is named after him.)
This morning, in an extremely rare event, I glanced at the paid obituaries in the NYT, and there was a long obit for John Pappajohn, who died at age 95 in retirement in Florida.
I remember meeting Pappajohn a couple times - at least once in our home in Lake View, IA, and at least once at his office suite in Des Moines. The connection must have gone into the 1980s, because a chance memory reminds me that Pappajohn was a college roommate of Dr Rex Jamison, a nephrologist (chairman?), who was one of my professors at Stanford medical school.
Another chance connection, 10 years ago I noticed that Pappajohn was an investor and board member of a small biotech company in the Northeast that I was researching.
I've uploaded the NYT familiy notice obit/PDF here. A few days later, May 5, a regular and full length obit in WSJ also.
The Des Moines Register had a 2016 article about the still-very-active Pappajohn - here - and the April 26, 2023 DMR obit here.
