After attending Ohio University, he entered journalism in 1963, writing obituaries for the Cleveland Press.
[1] Feagler continued to write his column for numerous Ohio newspapers, including the Akron Beacon Journal, the Willoughby News-Herald and the Elyria Chronicle-Telegram.
He was the host of Feagler & Friends, a weekly half-hour discussion program on WVIZ until 2013.
Feagler was inducted into the Press Club of Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame in 1994.
One of Feagler’s most popular newspaper pieces, "Christmas at Aunt Ida’s" was adapted into a stage production in 2006 at the Huntington Playhouse in Bay Village, Ohio.