Jonathan D. Arms

ARMS, JONATHAN D., loving father, financial counselor and advisor, community leader, and compassionate friend, died unexpectedly at his home in Providence, Rhode Island, Sunday, October 26, 2008. Jon was 39 years old.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1969, he was the son of Margot D. Stone, currently of Marion MA, and the late David S. Arms. Jon moved to Marion with his parents and sister Robin in 1976 at the age of 7. He was educated at the Sippican School, Friends Academy, and Tabor Academy, graduating from Tabor with highest honors in 1987. He then attended Dartmouth College, graduating summa cum laude in 1991, with a double major in Psychology and Economics. He received his M.B.A. from Stanford Business School in 1995 with a certificate in Non-Profit Management.

Jon began his career as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company in New York, where he worked for 4 years. He later served as an equity research analyst with Dresner RCM Capital Management in San Francisco CA until 1999, when he returned to Marion to become a Vice President and Investment Manager for American Research and Management Company, a firm his father had helped to found some 20 years earlier.

After returning to the east coast, Jon became involved with a number of community and charitable organizations. From 2000 to 2005 he served as Treasurer and Chairman of the Investment Committee for the Sippican Historical Society. During the past five years he also served as a member of the Investment Committee for the Gordon School (East Providence RI) and Friends Academy (N. Dartmouth MA), while also serving as Chairman of the Town of Marion's Music Hall Advisory Committee.

Beyond his professional and civic life, he was a man of many diverse passions. He loved traveling, blue water sailing, mountain biking, playing his guitar, touring on his motorcycle. He was a reader and seeker of spiritual enlightenment. He was a lover of music. He was a compassionate friend. But most of all he was a loyal and dedicated father who valued his time with his two young children and loved them before all else.

Survivors include his grandparents Elizabeth and Charles Arms of Marion MA and John Davenport of Cleveland OH; his mother Margot and her husband David Stone of Marion MA; his sister Robin, her husband Timothy Shields, and their children Abigail age 5 and Benjamin age 2, all of Fairhaven MA; his own children, Ella age 7 and Salter age 4, and their mother Heejun Hong of Providence RI; his cousin, Heather Stuckey of NYC; and his aunts, Deborah Stuckey and Drew Davenport both of Mayfield Heights, OH.

A Memorial Service will be held at 11:00 AM Saturday, November 15, at the Wickenden Chapel at Tabor Academy, Spring St., Marion, MA. Gifts in Jonathan's memory and in honor of Ella and Salter Arms may be made to the Gordon School, 45 Maxfield Ave, E. Providence RI 02914.

Arrangements by Chapman, Cole & Gleason Funeral Home, Wareham, MA. For directions and on-line condolences, please visit: www.ccgfuneralhome.com