Deceased October 25, 2019
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In Memory
Gregory Emmet Ratté passed away at his home in Honolulu on Oct. 25. He was a proud father; a beloved son, brother, uncle and friend; and an experienced investment manager with more than 30 years of service to his clients in Hartford, New York City and Honolulu. In 1985, he married Junko Kaneda, with whom he had four children, Alexander, Stephanie, Fred and Emily ’18. Greg and Junko moved with the children to Honolulu in 2001. Their marriage ended in divorce in 2012.
Greg grew up in Amherst; attended the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Conn.; and graduated with honors from Amherst. Greg rowed crew all four years at Amherst and was a member of Delta Upsilon Delta. He completed a graduate business program at the Japan-America Institute of Management Sciences of Sophia University in Tokyo. His career was in asset management, in a variety of companies, including his own, G.E. Ratté Asset Management.
Greg was a lover of opera and served on the boards of the Hawaii Opera Theatre and the Hawaii Symphony Foundation. He was an avid outdoorsman who loved hiking, whitewater canoeing, kayaking in the Pacific, running up Diamond Head and playing golf with his friends. To the distress of his immediate family, he became a Yankees fan when he moved to New York, although he was born in Boston. Happily, he remained a Patriots fan his entire life.
Greg is survived by his parents, Lou and John; his former wife, Junko; his siblings, Christopher, Catherine and Felicity; four children, Alexander, Stephanie, Fred and Emily ’18; two sons-in-law, Joshua Francis-Ratté and Mitch Moranis; and his fiancée, Kelley Tice.
John Ratté P’83