Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Squawk Box right here on CNBC. We're live from the NASDAQ market site in Times Square. I'm Becky Quick, along with Andrew Ross Sork, and Joe is out today.

Some sad news about a longtime friend of Squawk Box, Larry Bossidy has died at age 90. The former chairman and CEO of Honeywell was one of the first corporate leaders to guest host Squackbox back in the 1990s. He joined us on the air many times, sharing his perspective and peppering guests with questions until just a few years ago. As a boy in Pittsfield, Massachusetts,

Bossidy dreamed of being a professional baseball player and was scouted by the Detroit Tigers when

he was in high school. He attended Colgate on an athletic scholarship and joined General Electric

back in 1957. He spent more than 30 years there as a key player building the GE we'd come to know.

He had a successful stent, a CEO at manufacturer Allied Signal in the 1990s, which then

merged with Honeywell, making him the chairman of the combined company and when he returned

as CEO after a failed merger with GE, cementing his reputation as a corporate

turnaround artist. He also served on a number of blue-chip corporate boards like J.P. Morgan

and Merck, and insights from those experience made him a valued addition to our conversations

right here on Squawk Box. Larry and his wife, Nancy, had nine children, and we extend our condolences to his entire

beloved family, which included dozens of grandchildren.

He was a man of loyalty and integrity, both in business and more importantly in life.

And he was a dear friend to us here, in fact, the most, Joe Kernan, who joins us right now on the phone.

And, Joe, I know this one hit you pretty hard.

It did.

It did.

Hey, Kay, Andrew.

I knew Larry for over 30 years, both professionally and as a friend and a golf buddy.

And he was simply the best.

He had a big presence.

Everybody knows that.

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