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Reply James (Jim) Benedict Kobak passed away peacefully at age 99 at home in Redding on October 31. (Shutterstock)
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REDDING, CT James (Jim) Benedict Kobak passed away peacefully at age 99 at home in Redding on October 31. He was born in March 1921, in St. Louis, Missouri, as the second son of the late Evelyn and Edgar Kobak, an advertising executive and former president of the Mutual Broadcasting Company.
Jim and his wife, Hope, were longtime residents of Darien, raising three children there, Jim Jr., John and Tom. In later years, he and his wife also had a home in St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands and spent much of their time there. Jim lived the last eighteen years of his life at Meadow Ridge in Redding, Connecticut, with Hope, until she predeceased him in 2018.
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