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Published in Main Line Media News on November 5, 2011
John Joseph O'Connor 97, died peacefully on November 2, 2012 in his
Haverford home. Son of Jeremiah J. & Dora Stack.
He is pre-deceased by his wife, Nancy Archer, and four siblings. Father to
Brian, Geraldine, Clare Stuempfig & Joan, he also leaves behind six grandsons
and twelve great-grandchildren.
Born in Georgetown, Washington D.C. in 1914, and a graduate of
Gonzaga High School, Georgetown University and the Wharton School of
the University of Pennsylvania, John returned from World War II to his new
home in Haverford. His war-time military career was marked by rapid
promotion to Major as he spent several years in the jungles of Burma with
Merrill's Marauders, which was a United States Army long range penetration
special operations unit in the South-East Asian Theater of World War II which
fought in the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations, or CBI. He eventually
made his way into southern China to train and supply the Chinese army fighting
the Japanese.
John returned from the war and in 1946 and began a career as a
stockbroker at Reynolds & Co. later to become Vice President of Dean
Witter/Morgan Stanley, and would take the Paoli local to downtown
Philadelphia every weekday for more than fifty years. Additionally John taught
Investments for more than thirty years at the Main Line Night School. Forever
stoic, he had a simple outlook that life is daily and each day promised
something different. A man of terse words, he had a dogged determination to
push through all obstacles in his path which served him well all his life.
John Joseph O'Connor 97, died peacefully on November 2, 2012 in his
Haverford home. Son of Jeremiah J. & Dora Stack.
He is pre-deceased by his wife, Nancy Archer, and four siblings. Father to
Brian, Geraldine, Clare Stuempfig & Joan, he also leaves behind six grandsons
and twelve great-grandchildren.
Born in Georgetown, Washington D.C. in 1914, and a graduate of
Gonzaga High School, Georgetown University and the Wharton School of
the University of Pennsylvania, John returned from World War II to his new
home in Haverford. His war-time military career was marked by rapid
promotion to Major as he spent several years in the jungles of Burma with
Merrill's Marauders, which was a United States Army long range penetration
special operations unit in the South-East Asian Theater of World War II which
fought in the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations, or CBI. He eventually
made his way into southern China to train and supply the Chinese army fighting
the Japanese.
John returned from the war and in 1946 and began a career as a
stockbroker at Reynolds & Co. later to become Vice President of Dean
Witter/Morgan Stanley, and would take the Paoli local to downtown
Philadelphia every weekday for more than fifty years. Additionally John taught
Investments for more than thirty years at the Main Line Night School. Forever
stoic, he had a simple outlook that life is daily and each day promised
something different. A man of terse words, he had a dogged determination to
push through all obstacles in his path which served him well all his life.