SOUTH THOMASTON — John Forrest “Jack” Snow, born in Middletown, Conn., on April 27, 1924, died at his home in South Thomaston on Feb. 23, 2017. Jack was the son of Charles Wilbert Snow and Lola Jeanette Simmons.

He attended Middletown High School, Mount Hermon School and Wesleyan University, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. As U.S. engagement accelerated in World War II, Jack left college to enlist in the Army Air Corps, and served from 1943 to 1945 in the Pacific Theater. One of his great lifetime honors was being chosen to fly into Tokyo as part of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's honor guard, prior to the occupation of Japan.

Following the war he taught in the one-room school house in Spruce Head, where he had summered since childhood. He married Patricia Hallock Daley in 1949, and finished his Bachelor of Arts in English on the GI Bill at UCLA. Jack and Pat settled in South Thomaston, where they raised five children. Jack worked at the cement plant, and then as a lobsterman. In 1967 he entered graduate school, earning a Master of Arts in teaching from Wesleyan University, and then taught English at Woodrow Wilson High School in Middletown, Conn., for 11 years. He was a very popular and highly regarded teacher. Throughout his years of teaching, Jack spent summers raking Irish sea moss up and down the Maine coast, often working with his children. In 1986, Jack married Lyn Seagraves Sampson, and they built a productive business around her artwork.

Lyn predeceased Jack in 2013. He is survived by his youngest brother, Gregory and his wife, Sarah, of South Thomaston; by his five children, Stephen of Spruce Head, Patricia of New Haven Conn., Rebecca of Antakya Turkey, John Jr. and his wife, Robin, of South Thomaston, and Rachel of New York City; seven grand-children and three great-grandchildren; and by his stepchildren, Susan Whittington, Sarah Richards and John Sampson.

Family and friends are invited to visit Tuesday, Feb. 28, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Burpee, Carpenter & Hutchins Funeral Home, 110 Limerock St. in Rockland. A Eucharistic service will be held Wednesday, March 1, at 2 p.m. at St. Peter's Episcopal Church.