Fred Lindecke

Fred W. Lindecke, longtime political correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, died March 8, 2025.

Lindecke received his journalism degree from Washington University, in the course of which he also spent two years serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War.

His career included working for United Press International in the Chicago, Milwaukee and Washington, D.C. offices before joining the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1963. He became the Post-Dispatch’s Missouri Political Correspondent in 1967 and retired in 1997.

In addition to working for the newspaper, Lindecke wrote five plays primarily based on his experiences in the Missouri state legislature and that were performed by a local theater troupe in St. Louis.

A longtime St. Louis sports fan, he also held tickets to the Indianapolis 500 for nearly four decades and in celebration of his life, the family is planning a private memorial service at this year’s race later this month.

In addition to his wife, Elaine, he is survived by two children, Steven and Stacy, and many more family and friends.