Local insurance executive dies

Al Purmort Sr. had a penchant for a quiet kind of giving during a successful 50-year insurance career.

Sometimes it was a donation to a local civic, arts or education group. Other times it was a somewhat secretive gift to a local business in need of startup capital or some tide-over money. But the gifts, donations and loans, says Purmort's son, Al Purmort Jr., weren't for bragging purposes. The gift, believed the elder Purmort, was in the giving.

“All the corporate donations were anonymous,” says the younger Purmort, “because he felt that marketing it corrupted the donations.”