Charles "Chuck" Bond passed away in the sunshine just outside Richmond Terrace Assisted Living in St. Louis, Missouri on March 16, 2022. He was born in St. Louis to Viva Bryant in 1941, grew up near Sallisaw, Oklahoma, and then lived over 50 years in Kansas City, Kansas. Although he moved to St. Louis to be near family at the end of his life, he wore his Kansas City Chiefs jacket every day, so St. Louis always knew where his heart was. He married Paula Joan Case in 1962, and they had three children: Monica Yvonne (Grant Cochran) of Bolivar, Missouri; Moreena Renee (Joe Utter) of St. Louis; and Charles Tyrone (Melissa Helm) of Midway, Georgia. Joan and Chuck divorced in 2011, but remained friends and spoke frequently on the phone. He is survived by sisters Helen Ruark (Sallisaw, OK), Rosemary Anderson (Sallisaw, OK), Carol Lawson (Keota, OK) and Janie Kolterman (Ft. Wayne, IN); and brother Russell Bond (Sallisaw, OK), and nine grandchildren.
He graduated from Sallisaw High School, then attended Conners State College, and then Panhandle State University, where he graduated with a B.S. in Social Science in 1969. He later received an M.S. and Ed.S. from Pittsburgh State University in Industrial Education. His first job was teaching welding at Argentine High School, although he was always quick to remind us that his actual first job was working the fields in Oklahoma when he was just a kid. He became an administrator at the Kansas City Area Vocational Technical School, where he worked most of his life, with a short stint at Prudential. He was a Mason and a Shriner, and enjoyed driving his mini firetruck at parades all over Kansas. He was a member of Victory Hills Baptist Church in Kansas City.
Chuck Bond was a charmer, an outgoing and sociable guy who always remembered names and faces. He liked to buy old cars and tinker on them. He liked to hunt, and he loved his guns. He built houses, and he turned wood blanks into pens. His spelling was atrocious, and his sense of humor was sharp. He labeled everything, and he never saw a piece of metal/wood/plastic/string that he couldn’t figure out a use for. He once trained a cat, even though he always pretended he didn’t like them. He liked listening to Johnny Cash, and playing poker, and always claimed to be doin’ finer than frog’s hair. He will be missed.
Services will be held at Rocky Point Church in Sallisaw, Oklahoma on Saturday, April 30 at 11am.
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