This site was created as a place to celebrate and reflect on the life of Egons Arnolds Plavnieks. Egons was beloved by family, friends and colleagues. He was a proud Latvian-American. He was a talented musician who once played solo piano at Carnegie Hall. He was a businessman whose work with Proctor & Gamble brought him and his family from the United States to Europe, Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and back again. He was a business owner, founding a BrightStar Care franchise in Bethesda, Ma