WESTON, Fla.—Optical lab industry veteran Jeffrey Kosh passed away here on Dec. 11 after a bout with pneumonia and subsequent complications. He was 56 years old and lived in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Kosh and his brother Stuart were owners of Kosh Ophthalmic, a wholesale laboratory in Pompano Beach, Fla. The laboratory was founded in New York in 1925 by Kosh’s grandfather, Louis Herman Kosh and his brother, Abe. It was later owned and operated by Louis’s son, Allen Kosh, who was Jeffrey and Stuart’s father. The lab is currently owned by Essilor.

Kosh was a past president of the Optical Laboratories Association. Kosh is survived by his wife Mindy, two step-children, his brother Stuart and his mother.  ■