Tom Lehnen, a senior vp of Neiman Marcus (Dallas) until his retirement in 2000, died earlier this month of a heart attack at his home in Anna Maria, Fla. He was 68.
Lehnen’s retail career spanned 24 years, first with Federated Department Stores in Cincinnati, from 1976-1979; then Bullock’s, Los Angeles, as vp, store development and properties, from 1979-1984; Bloomingdale Department Stores in New York, as senior vp, real estate properties development, from 1984-1989. He joined Neiman Marcus as senior vp, properties & new store development, in 1989.
Lehnen was born in 1938, in Waukesha, Wis., and received his Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1962 from the University of Illinois. Upon graduation, he joined the Milwaukee office of Miller Waltz Diedrich Architects & Associates, becoming a partner in 1969 and partner-in-charge in their Los Angeles office the following year.
After his retirement, Lehnen and wife Pat moved to Anna Maria Island. Among his activities there, he was a director of the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, on the Tarpon Springs campus of St. Petersburg College. He bequeathed the Patricia A. and Thomas J. Lehnen Family Art Collection to the museum.
A Celebration of Life service will be held at the Roser Memorial Community Church, 512 Pine Ave., Anna Maria, at 11:00 a.m. on Aug. 5, 2006. Celebration of Life services will be announced in New York and Dallas at a later date. The family has requested that, in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions be made to the Epilepsy Foundation of America (Landover, Md.) or Communities Foundation of Sarasota (Fla.).