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Richard Edward Boyle, ’83, passed peacefully at age eighty-five. Dick received his Bachelor and Juris Doc- torate Degrees from the University of Illinois. He then served in the U.S. Air Force and was in the reserves when he began practicing law in 1962. Dick was a Past President of the National Association of Railroad Tri- al Counsel, and Past President of the St. Clair County Bar Association. The only things Dick loved more than the law were his family and friends, though he was also incredibly fond of the St. Louis Cardinals (both foot- ball and baseball), the St. Louis Rams, and the Fighting Illini. The Illini stayed put, as did Dick’s fondness for them; but his commitment to once-St. Louis football teams was tested by moves west. Dick is survived by his wife Janet, three children and four grandchildren.
Morris James Bruckner, ’80, passed away peacefully at home on June 24, 2023, after a brief Illness at age eighty-eight. Jim was recruited to play football by the University of Nebraska but chose Creighton University instead. After three years in the Business School, he en- tered Creighton University Law School and received his J.D. in 1958, graduating second in his class. At Creigh- ton, Jim met and married Marilyn Kaasch; they raised five sons as Jim pursued a career that included multiple million-dollar-plus decisions and more than thirty argu- ments before the Nebraska Supreme Court and other ap- pellate courts. An avid and skilled gardener, Jim instilled a love of landscaping in his sons and grandchildren, as well as a love of literature, gifting them with books on birthdays and holidays, chosen and inscribed with a per- sonal note crafted especially for each child. As he neared retirement, Jim became passionate about oil painting and traveled often to Taos, New Mexico to study with renowned impressionist painter, Ray Vinella. A student of the piano in his youth, Jim took up piano lessons again
at age fifty, where he reconnected with classical repertory, and pursued his love of jazz and blues. When he wasn’t gardening, golfing, or sketching a still-life, Jim could be heard working on riffs and practicing favorite composi- tions by jazz greats from the Stride to post Bebop eras. In 2005, Jim married Darcy Bruckner (nee Monagas). He and Darcy enjoyed traveling to visit family and exploring international locales. They spent several winters in Mex- ico, where they built a library for students and created a scholarship program for young female students to attend college. Jim was predeceased by Marilyn and a son but survived by Darcy, four sons, two step-children, twen- ty grandchildren and step-grandchildren, and seventeen great-grandchildren.
Thomas Ivo Carlton Jr., ’88, died just shy of his eighty- sixth birthday on April 22, 2023, survived by his wife Kathleen, six children and step-children and eleven grandchildren.Tom graduated from Vanderbilt Univer- sity in 1960 and the Nashville School of Law in 1965.
Tom was a Senior Metropolitan Attorney for the Met- ropolitan Government of Nashville from 1965-1970 before joining the firm where he practiced law until retiring in 2022.
William Thomas Coghill, Jr., ’75, a Great Depres- sion baby and WW II Veteran, died on July 25, 2023 at the age of ninety-six. Tom loved music. At the insistence of his mother, a piano teacher, he studied piano at Kreiger School of Music in St. Louis. Tom completed high school in three years and entered the University of Missouri the following year. After one year of college, Tom enlisted, at age seventeen, in the United States Navy in 1945. Tom sang as a member of the Bluejackets Choir and participated in a 1,000 man
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