Ex-Lawyer, Financial Consultant Clinton LaTourrette Dies at 85

Clinton LaTourrette, a retired partner in the law firm of O’Melveny & Myers and a founding director of Great Western Financial Corp., has died at age 85 after a long illness, his family announced.

Born in North Dakota on Aug. 19, 1901, LaTourrette graduated from Stanford University and Stanford’s School of Law. He joined the law firm in 1927 and was married to the founder’s daughter, Elizabeth Myers.

Retiring from O’Melveny & Myers because of poor health in 1953, LaTourrette began a second career as a financial consultant and maintained a Century City office until last year.

He was on Great Western’s founding board in 1955 and remained a director until 1981. He also served on the boards of Reserve Oil & Gas Co., American Mutual Fund Inc., Pacific Airmotive Corp. and Telecomputing Corp.

LaTourrette was first widowed in 1974 and again five years ago by the death of his second wife, Margaret Sterling.

He died Sept. 21 in the Rodeo Drive home in Beverly Hills he had owned for 55 years.

Survivors include two sons, Louis LaTourrette, a Los Angeles attorney, and Peter Myers LaTourrette, a Los Altos electronics consultant; a brother, Morton LaTourrette of Butte, Mont., and six grandchildren.

There will be no services.