Thomas Philip Mentzer (Tom Mentzer), 64, a native of Madison who had most recently resided in Missoula, Montana, pἀssed away suddenly on On November 21, 2021, in his Missoula home due to heart dἰsease. He underwent surgery for cἀncer and lived with the side effects for a few years before pἀssing away from the stomach and esophἀgeal cἀncer. On March 6, 1957, Thomas Mentzer, the sixth child of Philip and Elizabeth (Wonder) Mentzer, was born in Madison, Wisconsin.
Before earning his diploma in 1975, Tom attended St. Bernard Elementary School and Madison East High School. He earned his teaching credential from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his bachelor’s degree in wildlife management from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, respectively. His training and certifications equipped him for a teaching and public service career.
Tom served in Ghana as a Peace Corps member. He returned home and started his formal teaching career at Mason City High School in Iowa after overcoming a serious ἰllness. He started his career as a student teacher for the Navajo people in Tuba City, Arizona, and eventually spent 14 years living on the Hopi Indian Reservation in Keams Canyon, Arizona.
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He was respected by Hopi officials for his commitment to Hopi education and taught science to students in grades ranging from middle school to high school. The years Tom spent there, according to him, were the greatest of his career as a teacher. Tom has received many awards for his instruction. His wit, rigor, generosity, and kindness won him the respect of his students. Tom motivated a lot of Navajo and Hopi kids to finish their education. His former pupils have worked as doctors, engineers, and teachers.
Tom first met Kristin Foss, his future wife, while teaching on the reservation. In Kristin’s hometown of Salmon, Idaho, they were united in marriage on July 17, 2004. Subsequently, a charter school was created there, which Kristin now owns and directs. When he was a resident of Salmon, Tom taught a sizable number of other students. Through his teaching career and other pursuits, Tom spent his adult life serving the public, but his family was his greatest and most enduring love.
He admired his parents. He was particularly close to his brother Mark, a Westerner in both thought and proximity. Tom chose to live in the West despite being a West Coast native. He liked the outdoors and wide open spaces. He wanted to go backpacking, mountain climbing, hiking in wilderness areas, canoeing in untamed rivers and open water, and camping. When the whim struck him, he was a superb writer, reader, and artist of nature.
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