William Kaelin Obituary

Graduated From Duke University, Avid Saltwater Fisherman
QUECHEE — A Mass of Christian burial for William G. Kaelin, 82, who died Aug. 28, 2011, will be held Friday, Sept. 2, at 10 a.m. in St. Paul Church, Main Street, Glastonbury, Conn. Burial will follow in Holy Cross Cemetery in Glastonbury.
Bill, the son of the late William C. and Kathryn (Graf) Kaelin of East Rockaway, N.Y.
Bill was an international tax lawyer and an avid saltwater fisherman.
He graduated from Duke University and the Duke University School of Law, and began his legal career at Kramer, Marx, Greenlee and Backus in New York City in 1954.
He later served as counsel to Healy and Baillie LLP in New York, and as General Counsel to the New York office of Gill and Duffus, a commodities trading firm based in the UK, before practicing law full time on this own. Bill also earned an LL.M. in Taxation from the New York University School of Law.
Survivors include his children and their spouses, William Jr. and Carolyn Kaelin of Boston, Mass., Michael and Carol Kaelin of Wilton, Conn., Thomas and Linda Kaelin of Woodbury, Conn., Margaret and Glen Holland of Hingham, Mass., and Robert and Linda Kaelin of Glastonbury, Conn.; his sister, Ann Moran of Sound Beach, N.Y.; 15 wonderful grandchildren; and numerous cousins, nieces, nephews and in-laws, all of whom he loved very much.
In addition to his parents, Bill was predeceased by two brothers, Arthur and Robert Kaelin; his former wife, Nancy Kaelin, the mother of his five children.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to The Kaelin Laboratory at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 10 Brookline Place, 6th Floor, Brookline, Mass. 02445, with a notation that the donation is in memory of William G. Kaelin, Sr.
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