Our class received word through Jane Ready Hill and Harold Dams that Tom Fearno passed away on Sept 19, 2020. We have no further information at this time.
Tom and his wife celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 2018 and I will put that article from the Telegraph below.
Tom left this quote on his profile "When the candles on the birthday cake cost more than the cake, it is time to sit back and realize that life is too short to drink cheap wine."
Fearno celebrates 50 years
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Former Alton/Wood River residents, now residing in San Antonio, Texas, Thomas and Jeanne Fearno have recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary, Aug. 17, 2018.
The couple was married at the 1st Presbyterian church, in Alton, by the late Rev. A Ralph Lynn.
Mrs. Fearno was the former Jeanne Hindehan.
The couple has two daughters and a son-in-law, Tamara of Austin, Texas, Susannah and her husband, Efren, of San Antonio, Texas. They also have two grandchildren, Josie and EJ Maldonado.
Mr. Fearno taught at EA-WR high school for 24 years, and retired from the Department of Labor, State of Missouri.
I am deeply saddened by the news that my friend, Tom Fearno, died recently. He will be dearly missed. I am so happy that he chose to join our site in February of this year, putting up pictures that surely will bring back pleasant memories to many of you. Visit his profile. With no obituary to work from, I've added a picture of Tom and his beautiful young bride from the Alton Telegraph. Tom lived life to the fullest. May that be said of us all.
This is very sad news. Tom was a great friend. I see the picture of him above with the band he organized back in 1958, called "Three Kats and a Kitten." There's Tom standing on the right, and I'm between him and Dave Horn, who played bass. Our girl singer, Barbara Byrom, was the "Kitten." (Her stepfather suggested the name for the group, and she declared herself all in favor of it.) We were on a television show in St. Louis. Barbara went the rounds of dating all three of the "Kats." First me, then Tom, and finally Dave. These were all three very brief flings. Then her stepfather got transferred to Oklahoma, and I didn't hear from her again until 1966, when she was living in Dallas, TX. I was teaching at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and paid a brief visit to her in August of that year. Haven't heard from her since, but I did read somewhere that she got married and changed her last name to Guto.
But this is really about Tom, and I'm off the subject. He had a fantastic sense of humor, and could always make me laugh instantly. His mother also was quite a character, the most "with it" mother I ever met. Rest in peace, Tom. I hope your Christian Science faith has been vindicated for you.
Marilyn Hope Waide (Lake)
I am deeply saddened by the news that my friend, Tom Fearno, died recently. He will be dearly missed. I am so happy that he chose to join our site in February of this year, putting up pictures that surely will bring back pleasant memories to many of you. Visit his profile. With no obituary to work from, I've added a picture of Tom and his beautiful young bride from the Alton Telegraph. Tom lived life to the fullest. May that be said of us all.
Roger Cooke
This is very sad news. Tom was a great friend. I see the picture of him above with the band he organized back in 1958, called "Three Kats and a Kitten." There's Tom standing on the right, and I'm between him and Dave Horn, who played bass. Our girl singer, Barbara Byrom, was the "Kitten." (Her stepfather suggested the name for the group, and she declared herself all in favor of it.) We were on a television show in St. Louis. Barbara went the rounds of dating all three of the "Kats." First me, then Tom, and finally Dave. These were all three very brief flings. Then her stepfather got transferred to Oklahoma, and I didn't hear from her again until 1966, when she was living in Dallas, TX. I was teaching at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and paid a brief visit to her in August of that year. Haven't heard from her since, but I did read somewhere that she got married and changed her last name to Guto.
But this is really about Tom, and I'm off the subject. He had a fantastic sense of humor, and could always make me laugh instantly. His mother also was quite a character, the most "with it" mother I ever met. Rest in peace, Tom. I hope your Christian Science faith has been vindicated for you.
Roger Cooke