09/11/2026
🇺🇸 WE WILL NEVER FORGET 9/11 🇺🇸
Eatontown resident William "Bill" Otto Caspar was among the many that perished on this fatefull day .lived on Wall St. and in Eaton Crest
Occupation: data processing specialist, Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc.
Location: World Trade Center, Tower 1, 95th floor
STEEPED IN HARD WORK
"A Kansas farm boy" ‹ that is how people describe William Caspar, even though he was a data processing specialist for Marsh & McLennan who could create highly detailed electronic forms.
But every summer, Mr. Caspar would return to the Kansas farm that has been in his family for five generations so he could help with the wheat harvest.
At Marsh & McLennan, Mr. Caspar, 57, would often work long hours, a habit he picked up on the farm. "You start work when the sun comes up, and you go to sleep when the sun goes down," Tony Alaimo, a colleague, quoted Mr. Caspar as saying. "That's how we were raised."
Mr. Caspar, who had been divorced for many years, spent holidays with his sister's family in Scituate, Mass. "He was a good role model to have around my children," said the sister, Margaret Richardson. For years, Mr. Caspar worked out of a Princeton, N.J., office with a small group of people who often socialized together on weekends and grew very close. They were transferred to the World Trade Center in February.
Geary County native, William "Bill" Caspar, 57, was among those killed as he worked at the World Trade Center.
Before going to work in New York City Caspar had worked at the Central National Bank in Junction City. Retired Bank President Robert Munson noted that Caspar grew up on a family farm in Geary County. "Went to the Air Force after college and then came back to Junction City and Bill and I worked together at Central National Bank for a number of years." They worked on setting up the Bank's first in-house computer system.
Munson came to know Caspar very well during the time that they worked together. "He was a wonderful person, a devout Catholic who took his faith seriously, a very patriotic person for sure."
Caspar also served on the Metropolitan Planning Commission during his time in Junction City.
Munson remembered that Caspar worked in data processing at the World Trade Center for a large multi-national global insurance agency at the time of the terrorist attack. "As I understand it was in the north tower on the 100th floor when the first plane hit. " When he learned that Caspar was in the World Trade Center Munson noted that he "was just stunned, saddened beyond belief."
For the past 25 years there has been a memorial display in honor of Caspar in the Junction City Municipal Building.
