Mr. Freyer was admitted to a Bronx hospital on June 20 for blood pressure problems. He tested negative for the novel coronavirus, as he had a week earlier when he was examined by his own doctor.
But the day before he was scheduled to be released for rehabilitation, Ms. Freyer-Jones said, he tested positive. Nine days later, on July 14, he died at the hospital. It was his 86th birthday. She said the cause was complications of Covid-19.

Hugh P. Freyer grew up in the Washington Heights neighborhood. He graduated from George Washington High School and then went on to serve in the Army, where he was in Korea from 1957 to 1959  working as a radio operator. He began working in 1959 at what is now called Citibank while going to night classes at New York University and earning a bachelor’s degree in business in 1967. He worked his way up to corporate Vice President and moved to the New York office of the London-based bank Standard Chartered. Here he was a senior vice president until he retired in 2001 at 67.

For more than 50 years, he was a member of Alcoholics Anonymous. He counseled patients at Roosevelt Hospital (now called Mount Sinai West) who were being treated for for drug and alcohol overdoses. Hugh also served on A.A.’s board.
In 1956  he married Gertrude Flexer. They lived in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. She survives him. In addition to their daughter, he is also survived by their sons, Philip and Paul Freyer; seven grandchildren, and sister, Kathleen Harmon.

As posted in The New York Times – Lives We’ve Lost