Classmates and more - Pontious - Fox Veterans - Fox/Arnold/StL Friends - Teachers
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Retired Fox C-6 School District
administrator Gerald "Jerry" O’Connor died on Tuesday, Oct. 22. He was 87.
Christine Simokaitis, one of O’Connor’s children, said her father died from
complications after he had surgery due to a hip fracture following a recent
fall.
“He was such a pillar in our lives and the community,” she said. “He was
extremely loyal and dedicated to his family and the school. He loved the boys
who played football for him, as well as the students and teachers who he worked
with.”
O’Connor, who lived in Arnold, worked for the Fox district from 1960 to 1996,
spending most of his time at Fox High.
From 1960 to 1970, he was a math and physical education teacher, while also
serving as the head coach for the football and baseball teams and as an
assistant basketball coach. In 1966, he led Fox High to its first undefeated
football season.
O’Connor was promoted to an administrative role in 1970, becoming the athletic
director and an assistant principal. He served in those roles, while continuing
as the head football coach, until 1975.
He then became Fox High’s principal until 1989, when he was named the assistant
superintendent of secondary education.
The Board of Education named Fox High’s athletic stadium after O’Connor in 1997,
and he was inducted into the school’s sports hall of fame in 2005.
O’Connor was inducted into the Fox High School Alumni and Staff Hall of Fame on
Oct. 19. The alumni and staff hall was established in 2023 to honor staff
members who worked at the school for at least 15 years and students who had
graduated at least 10 years prior to induction in 2023.
Visitation will be held from 10 a.m. until funeral services at 1 p.m. Saturday,
Oct. 26, at John L. Ziegenhein & Sons South County Chapel, 4830 Lemay Ferry
Road, in south St. Louis County.
Memorial donations may be made to purchase a new “Jerry O’Connor Athletic Field”
sign or to help fund the Fox Scholarship Fund. Checks may be made out to Fox
High School in memory of Jerry O'Connor and sent to the attention of Joe Salsman,
Fox High School, 751 Jeffco Blvd., Arnold, 63010.
Retired Fox High School science teacher Art Kasey has died.
Arnold Police reported that Kasey was found dead in his home at approximately
9:45 a.m. today, Oct. 21. A time and cause of death was not available today.
Kasey was 84, police reported.
“This is probably the saddest news that we can come across,” Fox High School
assistant principal Joe Salsman said. “He taught here for 44 years. He was the
most beloved teacher to ever teach at Fox High School. He was probably one of
the most beloved citizens in the Arnold community. If you lived in Arnold, you
knew who he was or had heard of him.”
Kasey taught geoscience courses at Fox High from 1971 through 2015. Along with
teaching, he led the Fox Chess Club, Discovery Club and Weather Club.
During his teaching career, Kasey earned the 2004 Walmart Good Works Teacher of
the Year award, 1995 Jefferson County Educator of the Year and 1988 and 2014
Excellence in Teaching awards from Emerson Electric.
Kasey was a member of the first class to be inducted into the Fox High School
Alumni and Staff Hall of Fame in March 2023. The school, which already had an
athletic hall of fame, created the honor last year to recognize staff members
who worked at the school for at least 15 years and students who had graduated at
least 10 years prior to induction in the hall.
Kasey, who grew up in Kentucky, planned to be a geologist and was working on a
doctorate in geology at the University of Missouri-Columbia when circumstances
led him into teaching instead. He had worked part time as a teaching assistant
at Mizzou and before that at the University of Tennessee.
When Kasey retired from Fox High, Arnold Mayor Ron Counts declared May 2, 2015,
Mr. Art Kasey Day, and Kasey received a diploma from Fox High with the 2015
graduating class.
Salsman said today that Kasey’s family had not
finalized funeral arrangements.
Fox C-6 School District Board of Education vice president Todd Scott said he
believed Kasey would be buried in Kentucky, and the family plans to hold a
service in his honor in the Arnold area.
Marty Johnson was passionate about
everything he did, his family says.
“Whether it was real estate, music, cooking, whatever, it started with passion,”
said his son, Scott Johnson, 57. “And he did everything he could to spread that
around as much as possible.”
Mr. Johnson died Oct. 11 after battling cancer. He was 84.
He was a longtime educator, directing choirs at Festus, Fox and Crystal City
schools, as well as Grace Presbyterian Church in Crystal City. Later, he was a
real estate trainer.
Mr. Johnson grew up in Indiana and played the drums from a young age, attending
Murray State University in Kentucky on a scholarship.
He was married briefly to Sally Aubuchon (now Sally Herman of Branson) and had
two children before divorcing in the mid-1970s. He met Marilyn Penner in 1978
while both were singing in a local community chorus, and they were married that
summer.
Mr. Johnson’s first job was teaching choir and directing beginning band at
Festus. Later, he worked as a choir director for the Fox C-6 School District for
18 years, and was inducted into the Fox High School Hall of Fame.
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•• Class of 1966 ••
Badger, Thomas
(Vietnam)
Baltzell, Gary
Becker, Frank
10-23-15
Boehm, Barbara
Bone, Bill
5-31-2004
Burkard, Alvin J Sr.
Byrnes, Steve
Capstick, Bob
11-30-2020
Carpenter, Danny
Chaney, Carl
2-7-2015
Cheatham, Joyce
DeQuiros, Richard
Dockery, Carol
Frank, Kenneth
Frenz, George
Frenzel Eugene
3-3-94
Freukes, Daniel Lawrence
Jr.
7-19-18
Gaines, Paul
Haynes, Michael
Hazelwood, Greg
Hildebrant, Donna (Bushey) 1-31-17
Hipkins, Keith
(Vietnam)
Hobson, Linda
1995
Jester, Harold George
2-27-18
Knickmeyer, William
4-21-01
Knight, Diedre
Lambert, Betty
Leach, Wayne
Lenzen, Albert
Lilly, Jack
McCarty, Harry
Neuhaus, Janice (Kuntz)
Osthof, Janis
Phegley, Roger
Pontious, Don
Praul, Dave
10-22-77
Redfarin, Ronald D
Rutledge, Carlos
Tudor, Richard
Wick, Bonnie