Donald Kimmel

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Residing In:	Chesterfield, MO USA

Spouse/Partner:	Christy Knoesel - PHS Class of 1967

Occupation:	Computer Consultant, Real Estate Broker, Investor

Children:	Tracy - Currently living in Aiea, Hawaii Her husband Christopher is a Navy Doctor - currently head of More…

Military Service:	Missouri Air National Guard (1966-72)

School Story:

Percia Amedee and I were chatting back & forth in Mr.True's Missouri History class, and back in the left rear of the classroom Earl Simpson (from Arkansas) was cutting up & Mr. True had had about enough of it - I musta turned around to say something else to her (I think she were showing me pictures of her drop-dead-gorgeous friend in San Diego and Mr. True told me "I had three strikes - you're out - report to the principal's office". So I marched down to the principals office & his secretary was Mrs. Irene Swan who knew my mother. She asked what I was doing there - shouldn't I be in class & I told her what happened. She said go on in, Mr. McMahon was in his office. When I walked in there I noticed he was watching TV and I made some kind of joke about watching the three stooges or something like that. He told me to sit down - that Kennedy had been shot in Dallas. A couple minutes later, Walter Cronkite announced that he had died at Parkland Memorial. Mr. McMahon told me to return to class. When I opened the door and walked back into class, Mr. True asked me what I was doing back & I told-em that Kennedy had been assassinated - I'll never forget his exact words in response: "you better hope that's not true because Lyndon Johnson is the biggest crook this country has ever seen".!!!!!!! He then told me to sit down and shut up. Mr. True came to our 40th reunion and I asked him if he remembered that - he said he did but didn't remember which student it was that he kicked out of class that day. He was retired to a farm where he grew up, just north of Springfield, MO - and was raising cattle.

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Feb 26, 2025 at 10:55 AM

Phil - best wishes on your birthday! I've been to Dublin (both of them) as a former neighbor moved to Ohio for a job change and we visited there - - both towns have nice pubs........

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Jan 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM

Best wishes on your birthday! Hope you have a terrific day. Enjoy!

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Jan 25, 2025 at 11:18 AM

Joe, best wishes on your birthday. Missed you at the 60th class reunion. Well try to get a happy hour soon when it warms up a little.

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Wanda, Best wishes on your birthday! Wonderful to see you at the reunion last Saturday.
Go CHIEFS!!!!!!!!!!!

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Sep 22, 2024 at 10:48 AM

Raelene, Best wishes on your birthday. Hope all with you and family. You missed a good time at the 60th reunion last Saturday.

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Sep 13, 2024 at 12:25 PM

Jerry, best wishes on your birthday. Disappointed that you will not be attending the 60th Class of 1964 reunion tomorrow. Hope all is well with you and family! Don

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Judy, have a wonderful day! Sorry you won’t be able to attend the reunion in Saturday, highlights will be posted to class website. Don

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Kent, Best wishes on your birthday, have a great day! Hope to see you on the 14th at the 60’th reunion.

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Best wishes on your birthday! Will see you in just a couple weeks - have a great day.

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Becky, best wishes on your birthday. Hope to see you at the 60th reunion on Sept 14.

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Judy, Happy Birthday! Hope you are considering coming back for our 60th Pattonville H.S.reunion on September 14.Don

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Jul 20, 2024 at 7:56 AM

Dennis, best wishes on your birthday. Glad to see that you registered to attend our Class of 1964 reunion on September 14 - we can swap tales/lies from our time growing up together.
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Jun 19, 2024 at 3:21 PM

Larry, Best wishes on your birthday! Hope you can attend 6oth reunion September 14, 2024 at The Sports Page, Bridgeton - go to our class website www.pattonville-1964.com for more information and to register for the event.

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Harry - Best wishes on your birthday! Hope you can attend 6oth reunion September 14, 2024 at The Sports Page, Bridgeton - go to our class website www.pattonville-1964.com for more information and to register for the event.

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May 18, 2024 at 12:12 PM

Carol - best wishes on your birthday!. Hope you are able to attend 60th PHS Class of 1964 reunion on September 14,2024 at The Sports Cafe in Bridgeton. (you and Ron Kaiser share birthday's today) - us Pattonville Elementary kids gotta stick together!

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Kaiser best wishes on your birthday - let's get together again for lunch. You wanna do a road trip in July - up to the U.P. of Michigan?

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Nancy, best wishes on your birthday. Hope all is well with you and family. Look forward to seeing you and other classmates at 60th reunion in September.

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Don & Christy Kimmel - 2009

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Hitch-Hikers Band - 1965 - Left to right: Mark Woodson (PHS-64), Don Kimmel (PHS-64), Ed Baker, Gary Smith - both Ritenour (BOO!!), Milt Fosterling (Hazelwood), Gerry Wintrode (dropout), and Lee Johnson (PHS-Jan-65) - we felt we would give another up and coming band by the name of The Beatles a run for their money, but, they had a better manager than we did!!!!!! We played school dances (PHS included), teen towns, CYC's, and smoke-filled bars for four years - what a ride!!!!!!!!