PETER D. KIERNAN, 65; CHAIRMAN OF FLEET/NORSTAR FINANCIAL GROUP

From: The Boston Globe | Date: September 16, 1988| Author: Associated Press | Copyright information

PROVIDENCE - Peter D. Kiernan, the chairman and chief executive officer of Fleet/Norstar Financial Group, has died as a result of complications from emergency surgery he underwent last month.

Mr. Kiernan, 65, died Wednesday in the intensive care unit of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where he had been transferred following surgery to remove an aneurysm in his aorta.

Mr. Kiernan fell ill while vacationing at his family's summer home on Cape Cod Aug. 18 and un...