Tom attended Kenyon College, Yale University and the University of Missouri Law School, where he received his degree in 1969. He was employed by the St. Louis law firm of Fordyce and Mayne, later merging with Ziercher and Hocker. He retired in 1998 after 30 years of practice. He was a member of the Missouri Bar Association.
He married Christine Ruble in 1983. They had one daughter, Mina.
One of his most notable accomplishments was the sale of Union Station in New York, which involved four countries and 40 corporate attorneys. Tom was the lead attorney, his wife recalled. He wore an old suit with mustard stains, she said, which didn’t bother him a bit. “Let them see what a Midwestern lawyer looks like,” she remembered him saying. “The other lawyers all had three-piece suits and talked for 12 hours. I could have wrapped the whole thing up in two hours.”
He was the smartest man I’ve ever known,” she said. He represented some of the largest firms in St. Louis.
A sports enthusiast, Tom was the commissioner of several football and baseball fantasy leagues in the St. Louis area.
He died at St. John's Mercy Hospital at 59 after a long battle with emphysema.
Submitted by Nelson Spencer, as told by Tom's wife, Christine
Barry Todd
Thomas E. Toney III, 1943-2002
Tom attended Kenyon College, Yale University and the University of Missouri Law School, where he received his degree in 1969. He was employed by the St. Louis law firm of Fordyce and Mayne, later merging with Ziercher and Hocker. He retired in 1998 after 30 years of practice. He was a member of the Missouri Bar Association.
He married Christine Ruble in 1983. They had one daughter, Mina.
One of his most notable accomplishments was the sale of Union Station in New York, which involved four countries and 40 corporate attorneys. Tom was the lead attorney, his wife recalled. He wore an old suit with mustard stains, she said, which didn’t bother him a bit. “Let them see what a Midwestern lawyer looks like,” she remembered him saying. “The other lawyers all had three-piece suits and talked for 12 hours. I could have wrapped the whole thing up in two hours.”
He was the smartest man I’ve ever known,” she said. He represented some of the largest firms in St. Louis.
A sports enthusiast, Tom was the commissioner of several football and baseball fantasy leagues in the St. Louis area.
He died at St. John's Mercy Hospital at 59 after a long battle with emphysema.
Submitted by Nelson Spencer, as told by Tom's wife, Christine