Death Announced of Henry Felix Kloman II, Lyme Resident in his Retirement Years

Henry Felix Kloman II, 92, died peacefully with family at his side on Tuesday, November 18, 2025.

Born April 16, 1933, he was the son of the late Very Rev. E. Felix Kloman and Olivia Rogers Pragoff Kloman, of Washington, D.C.

Felix, as he was known, graduated from St. Paul’s School, Concord, New Hampshire in 1951, and from Princeton University in 1955, where he was a member of Colonial Club. He served on active duty with the U. S. Navy from 1955 to 1957, in the Pacific, allowing him to explore Japan and the South Pacific and continue his lifelong curiosity about people, places, and ideas.

In 1957 he joined the insurance brokerage firm of Lukens, Savage & Washburn, in Philadelphia, becoming a partner in 1964, and then the brokerage firm of Alexander & Alexander in 1967 when he and his family moved to Rowayton, Connecticut.

In 1970, he founded Risk Planning Group, in Darien, Connecticut and served as its president until its merger with Tillinghast, Nelson & Warren in 1984 and, a year later, with Towers Perrin (now Willis Towers Watson). He continued as a principal of Towers Perrin until his retirement in 1994.

In 1974 he created Risk Management Reports, a bimonthly journal on risk management that he published, edited, and wrote for more than 33 years. Seawrack Press, Inc., formed during retirement, published three of his books, Mumpsimus Revisited: Essays on Risk Management, in 2005; The Fantods of Risk: Essays on Risk Management, in 2008; and Dead Reckoning: A Personal History, in 2011. In 1994 he and his wife moved to Lyme, Connecticut, where he was a counselor in the Southeastern Connecticut chapter of SCORE, and a trustee of The Williams School.

An active sailor and racer his entire life, he served as Commodore of both the Princeton University Yacht Club (1955) and the Norwalk (CT) Yacht Club (1986-87); was a member of the Hamburg Cove Yacht Club (CT) and The Corinthians; and was the founding director of the St. George Community Sailing Foundation, in Tenants Harbor, Maine, where he and his family vacationed each summer since 1951.

Also an avid hockey player, he played for the Wissahickon Skating Club, in Philadelphia; the New Canaan Winter Club, in Connecticut; and helped form the Darien Winter Club in Connecticut in 1977. He also led “old-timer” hockey teams to several Senior Olympics in Santa Rosa, California.

As a rower, he was a member of the University Barge Club, in Philadelphia, from 1957 to 2012, and enjoyed sculling on the Schuylkill River, Long Island Sound, Connecticut River, and in the waters of Tenants Harbor, Maine.

His wife of 61 years, Ann, died in 2018. He is survived by his children and their spouses, Edward Felix Kloman (Kelly Schwenkmeyer), of Ipswich, MA; Alexis Hills Southworth, of Hilo, HI; Blair Trapnell Kloman (John McLeod), of Weybridge, VT; and Sarah Pendleton Kloman (Michael Smith), of Darien, CT; and ten wonderful grandchildren. His sister, Olivia Lewis Kloman Chappell, of Hopewell, NJ, predeceased him in 2014. He is also survived by his sister Eleanor Trapnell Kloman Wallace, of Fort Wayne, IN, and his brother, Christopher Rogers Kloman, of McLean, VA.

His final haiku:
Lonely leaf lingers
Awaiting first icy frost.
There! It’s time to go.

There will be no memorial service. Donations may be made in his memory to the St. George Community Sailing Foundation, PO Box 435, Tenants Harbor, ME, or to St. Paul’s School, Concord, NH 03301.