John (Jack) Carter Van Straaten, age 81, succumbed to chronic heart disease on August 28, 2022 in Tucson, AZ. He was born April 8, 1941 in Minneapolis, MN to Jessica and John Van Straaten. He was raised partly in St. Paul, then lived in Faribault, MN, part of the class of 1959. He attended Macalester College, making life-long friends, graduating in economics and political science in 1963.