Obituaries : Laurence P. Koerner; IRS Fraud Investigator
Laurence Paul Koerner, a longtime Ventura resident and a former assistant chief for the Internal Revenue Service in Los Angeles, has died. He was 85.
Koerner died at his Ventura home Monday after a brief illness, said his wife of 52 years, Freda Koerner.
A native of Los Angeles, Koerner attended UCLA for a year before he transferred to Columbia University in New York City. He graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in 1941, his wife said.
After college, Koerner joined the Navy and worked as a radar specialist in Corpus Christi, Tex.
In 1945, he returned to Los Angeles and began working for the IRS as a fraud investigator in the treasury intelligence division. He retired in 1971.
While living in Los Angeles, Koerner kept a beach house in Ventura to which he retired.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by a daughter, Sharyn Hudkins, of Wimberley, Tex., and two sons, Charles Koerner of Sherwood, Ore., and Craig Koerner of Ventura.
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