Jack and Molly were married in the Newton Lower Falls Methodist Church. Jack was cremated and his ashes spread over the Vetrans Memorial in Portland, Maine.
John Jr. (Jack) was born in the Newton-Wellesley hospital. He entered the Navy right after Pearl Harbor in January 1942. He took his training at Newport, RI. After finishing his training and on his way aboard a train to New York, he learned his ship, the steamship Normandy, was on fire. He was rerouted back to Boston where he boarded the AA cruiser San Juan. Her served until Dec. 1945, the whole tim e in the South Pacific. He racked up 13 major battle stars. He was on the San Juan when Jimmy Dolittle too off in the Hornet to bomb Tokyo, Japan on April 14, 1942. He served abord the San Juan until he came home on leave in Sept. 1943. He got sick and was taken to Chelsea Navl Hospital. When he got out he was assigned to a troop carrier, the Oakinagoon APA 220 on which he landed in Japan after the war ended. He was discharged in Boston in Dec. 1945.
John was known to his family as Jack or Jackie. He went to school in Wellesley until grade 11. He worked as a sub special delivery messanger at the Wellesley Post Office with his father. After the War, he worked as a hosler for the New Haven RR at Needham Jt. He took care of steam engines at night, getting them ready for their runs the next day.
In 1987 Jack was living at Rt. 3, Farmington, Maine.
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