Bojan Kostic

From September 11 Memories

Having been born in Belgrade in Yugoslavia, Bojan Kostic moved, as a teenager, to Iowa in the mid 1980s to attend college. He was supported by his father, a veterinary surgeon, who lived back in his home country.

Later Bojan moved from the midwest to Connecticut, where he initially took a job painting houses, and then went on to Baruch College.

Following this he worked very successfully in finance, his last job being with Cantor Fitzgerald Securities. He was a hard worker, getting into his office by 6 a.m. each day. He was single and lived on the West Side.

When he died, his sister, Nina, had also left Yugoslavia, living in London with her husband and daughter. She remembers her brother:

"He was a kind and honest man. I had not lived in the same country as him for many years but we kept regularly in touch, both by phone and visiting each other. We were very close, and I miss him dreadfully."