Obituaries

Affton Columnist Dies at 91

Jim Fox was a longtime writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Suburban Journals.

Jim Fox, a newspaper reporter and columnist for over 70 years, died Sunday at his home in Affton. He was 91.

Fox was a Washington University graduate and later taught journalism at Wash U and Webster University.

According the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Fox joined the paper in 1951. He worked as a copy editor, reporter, telegraph editor, city editor and feature writer. His final Suburban Journal column is slated to run Wednesday, Jan. 16. 

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Fox donated his body to the Washington University School of Medicine. To read a full obituary, click here.


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