Vestor J. Skutt

(1902-1993) lived in Omaha. Lawyer, corporate executive, president and CEO of Mutual of Omaha, he developed the company into the largest individual health and accident insurance firm in the nation, and one of the most comprehensive health insurance companies in the world, initiated sponsorship of a wildlife television series in 1962. Consult Current Biography (1959) 415-416 and Sunday/Omaha/ World Herald Magazine of the Midlands, February 19, 1978, pp. 8-9, 13-15 and Annual Obituary 1993 (St. Martin's Press, 1994) 188-190.

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