The Passing of Nancy L. Koss: Founder's Wife Was Instrumental in Creating the Company
January 10 2018 - 1:29PM
Koss Corporation is mourning the loss of Nancy L. Koss, the wife of
company founder John C. Koss. Mrs. Koss' image was captured
in the original Koss Stereophones logo which featured the now
famous "Hearing is Believing" trademark. She passed away
peacefully on January 8, 2018, surrounded by her husband and
family.
"Our company was originally founded in 1953 by
my parents Nancy and John Koss as The Koss Hospital Television
Rental Company," Michael J. Koss, Chairman and CEO said in a brief
announcement today. "Had my mother not supported the same
entrepreneurial vision as my father, there would have been no way
for the company to have ever been born."
Michael Koss went on to explain that his mother
believed so much in John Koss and his plan to rent televisions to
hospital patients, she allowed him to risk their entire life
savings to purchase fifty broken-down televisions for repair.
"It was clearly a 'Mom-and-Pop' operation at the
beginning. If Mother had been skeptical, Dad's first idea
might have been slid to the back burner."
In 1958, Nancy's unwavering faith helped create
a product that changed the way people listen to music: the World's
First SP/3 Stereophone.
"Mother helped bake Royalite earcups for the
headphones in her kitchen oven before cooking meals for father's
musician friends who gathered in the basement to assemble those
first models. I suppose that made her our first head of
production at the same time that she was busy producing five
children."
Michael Koss explained that Nancy Koss had five
children in six years, and went on to become a Grandmother to
fifteen grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
"My folks met and dated as teenagers, and were
married for nearly sixty-six years," Koss continued. "She was
father's soul-mate and the perfect mother."
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Nancy Koss
attended Atwater School, Shorewood High School, and the Layton
School of Art. She served in local charities including The
Boys and Girls Club, Junior Achievement and the Milwaukee Art
Museum. She was also a member of the Raleigh Tavern Society
of Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia.
"Mother's legacy lives on through her family and
through the company she helped bring to life," Michael Koss
said. "She played an instrumental role in creating our
American Dream."
A photo accompanying this announcement is available at
http://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/830693fd-3ce5-40a2-87ec-a75becb4b033
The photo is also available via AP PhotoExpress.
CONTACT: |
Michael J.
Koss |
|
Chairman &
CEO |
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(414)
964-5000 |
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mjkoss@koss.com |
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