John Bland Randolph Disbrow ’33

Johnnie died of pneumonia Dec. 2, 2002. He and good friends Art Calfee, Bill Durham, Frank Hammett, and Henry McIntyre prepared at St. Louis Country Day School, went to Princeton together, and were in Cottage. Johnnie's daughter tells stories of pool games and geology field trips in a private rail car.

In 1939 Johnnie acquired the distributorship of a bottled-water company and moved to Milwaukee. At retirement age he sold the company and for a while took up real estate. As to hobbies, he was a "rehabber." As a young boy, he and his two brothers built a wrap-around deck on a home high on a mountain in Colorado, where his family lived. He loved this work and tore out and put together in various degrees features of every house he ever lived in.

Johnnie is survived by his wife, Jessie Connett, who he married in 1936; a daughter, Carroll Disbrow; a son, John; and three grandchildren. He lived a happy life and will be missed by his many friends.

The Class of 1933