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passed away on November 1, 2019. Jim believed passionately in the arts and their ability to provide a platform for the world to communicate and get along together.
Throughout his career, Jim made significant contributions to arts organizations, including the Huntington Museum of Art in West Virginia, the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio, the Saint Louis Art Museum, and the Arts and Education Council, where he spearheaded the renovation of a historic building in the Grand Center Arts District. After retiring in 2008, Jim held interim positions at the Eden Theological Seminary, St. Andrew's Charitable Foundation, Jazz St. Louis, and the Missouri Humanities Council, and Craft Alliance. He also served on the boards including The St. Louis Children's Choirs, Fox Performing Arts Charitable Foundation, Kirkwood Arts Commission, Kirkwood Arts Foundation and the Historic Kirkwood Train Station Foundation.
Jim is survived by Phyllis, his beloved wife of 51 years, and by son Chris (Vanessa) and grandchildren Nicholas and Avery, of Houston, Texas, and by daughter Katherine Verrill (Nathan) and grandchildren Emma, Lily and Phoebe Verrill, of Kirkwood, Missouri. He will also be missed by brother Jack (Marilynn) Weidman, sister-in-law Patience (Bruce) Gall.
Services: A celebration of Jim's life will be held at Bopp Chapel, 10610 Manchester Rd., in Kirkwood, MO, on November 24, 2019, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to a charity of donor's choice. www.boppchapel.com
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Lisa Fredeking
November 5, 2022
This wonderful man was our professor at Marshall University and abroad in London. We were privileged to be not only his students but friends. We babysat for his children. Our deepest condolences, Lisa Fredeking and Sara Jane Wilson
John Keohane
January 30, 2021
Jim and I were classmates in Mount Carroll High School, in northern Illinois. We had about 45 students in our class. Jim was always excellent in school, and he played in the band. His father headed the Mt. Carroll National Bank, so Jim learned about the arts and about finance at an early age. He went to Carleton College, in Northfield, MN, later earned an MBA at Indiana University. My wife and I met him once at the art museum in Columbus, Ohio, and other times at the reunion of the class of '57 back in Mount Carroll, Illinois. He was a valuable citizen of the world, who is, and will be missed.
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