Seoul American High School special education teacher Richard Mathis died Sunday at Yongsan Garrison?s Brian Allgood Army Community Hospital after an extended battle with cancer, according to the Department of Defense Education Activity. (Courtesy of Department of Defens)
SEOUL — Seoul American High School special education teacher Richard Mathis died Sunday at Yongsan Garrison’s Brian Allgood Army Community Hospital after an extended battle with cancer, according to the Department of Defense Education Activity.
Mathis, 64, was a retired U.S. Army master sergeant who began his career with DODEA in 1999 as a business education teacher at Ansbach High School in Germany. He transferred to Seoul American Elementary School in 2004, working as a special education teacher. He transferred to the high school in 2009.
“Richard always placed his students first,” SAHS principal Richard Schlueter said in a DODEA news release. “Every one of them is a better person because of his caring and teaching.”
Mathis is survived by his wife, Hui Suk Pak, a school-age daughter, two grown children and several grandchildren. Funeral services were held Thursday at Yongsan.
