Lamont Connor

Lamont Connor

On January 10, 1965, Lamont Joseph Connor was born to his parents, Madelyn and Wilard. He was the first of three children, and their only son. He was a happy baby who grew into a sociable young boy known for visiting his neighbors just to chat. His warm smile and genuine laugh were always welcomed.

Lamont was a step ahead of his peers academically but it was the subject of mathematics where he truly excelled. He was known by friends and family as a walking calculator because of his ability to quickly perform complex math problems in his head. He was fascinated by numbers and how they created order and reliability. He even developed his own mathematical theorem while attending Baptist High School, much to the chagrin of his calculus teacher. His love for the ones and zeros would later lead him to the world of computers, a field that was just starting to emerge in the early 80s.

If mathematics was his first love, sports were his second. He played basketball by default because he stood 6’ 5 ½” tall but it was football that captured his heart. At 300+lbs, he would have made a formidable lineman; unfortunately, he never got the opportunity to play because the family would move from Philadelphia, where Lamont was attending Central High School, to New Jersey, where he entered a parochial school devoid of a football team. Basketball did allow him to travel and play on the Christian High School circuit and where he would earn a scholarship to play basketball at Messiah College.

Though not completely interested in another four years of school, Lamont was completely interested in the brand-new major of Computer Sciences that Messiah offered. He earned his degree there but learned that it was merely foundational and that he would need additional certifications to enter the career he wanted. Undeterred, he took a job with an accounting firm while he attended a computer tech school. His perseverance garnered the credentials needed to land a position with PECO, where he would climb the ranks and build a reputation for impeccable work. The longer he stayed with the company, the more his interests would change, eventually leading him to the world of cyber securities and a management-level position as a Cyber Securities Architect.

He was a comic book aficionado, a dyed-in-the-wool Philly Sports fan Phan, a video gamer, a sci-fi geek, and a wrestling saga follower. He was also a chess player, a foodie and a music enthusiast, from rap to classical. One thing he was above all else was devoted to his family, even stepping up to use his successes to help when times were hard.

Lamont loved deeply yet quietly, but if you meant something to him, you knew. The gaping hole his passing leaves in the hearts of his coworkers, friends, and extended family will never be filled. The sorrow, too, is unmeasurable for his little sister he nicknamed Babydoll, and the one person in the world he loved more than life, his beloved “Momma”, Madelyn, who referred to him as “her baby” until the day he left this Earth.

Lamont’s life will be honored and remembered privately by his family.

“A Life Well Lived Is Worth Remembering”