Benjamin Franklin Rassieur ’48

A lifelong St. Louisan, Frank was born March 13, 1927, and died Oct. 19, 2020. He was 93.

His career was as a leader of a metals heat-treating firm, Paulo Products Co., started by his parents and now led by two sons. Frank developed Paulo Products into a multi-state diversified operation. He ran the company for six decades and retired as chairman emeritus. He was a leader in many local community service and cultural organizations as well as management groups in his industry.

Frank was a graduate of and lifelong alumni leader of the John Burroughs School in St. Louis. At Burroughs he established a career-awareness center and funded many scholarships. Recreationally, he was an ardent sailor in Hobe Sound, Fla., where the Rassieur families together have a vacation home. Frank was also a lifelong tennis, backgammon, and bridge player, and a season-ticket Cardinals baseball fan.

Frank and his late first wife of 25 years, Mary Terry, and his second wife, Mary McDonald, who survives him, are parents/stepparents of three sons, B. Franklin III, Terry, and Thomas ’81; three stepchildren, Dan, Missy, and Carrie; 13 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.