Sad News - Just_Jon

[Oaktree]

Very sad news. We'll miss Jon around here

 

[TinaP]

All I can add is my sympathy to your family.

 

[just_jon]

Jon's obituary has just been posted online:

Text of the obituary follows (we have had to remove the link due to some issues with malware on the destination site):

Jonathan Edmonds

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March 27, 1951 - Aug. 7, 2009

Jonathan P. "Rump" Edmonds of Huntsville passed away Friday at Huntsville Hospital. He was 58.
Jon was born in Harrisburg, Pa., and raised in Berwick, Pa., and Huntsville. A graduate of Lee High School, Jon was always interested in sports, playing both baseball and football, although baseball was his favorite. At age 13, he was scouted by the Pittsburgh Pirates organization as a player with major league potential as a catcher.
It was while playing football for Chapman Junior High School that his neck was broken during a game with Joe Bradley Junior High, making him a quadriplegic and confining him to a wheelchair for the remainder of his life.
He spent two weeks at Huntsville Hospital and was then transferred to the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitative Medicine in New York City, where he met the girl who was to become the love of his life, Martine Berliere, his future fiancée.
Following 18 months of treatment in New York, he returned to Huntsville, picked up his studies and graduated on time with the rest of his Class of 1969 at Lee High School. After high school, he went to the University of Illinois, where he graduated with a degree in communications. In 1979, he was hired by the U.S. Army Missile Command at Redstone Arsenal, as a contract cost/price analyst, where he found his true calling. He got his 30-year pin earlier this year and had told family and friends that he planned to keep working and never retire. He was the recipient of numerous letters of commendation and cash awards and was named the Huntsville-Madison County Disabled Employee of the Year.
Jon had a host of friends, now stretched across this country, and each of them, along with his family, have a hole in our hearts which we feel may never heal. He was preceded in death by his father, Richard S. Edmonds of Huntsville.
Survivors include his mother, Ruth Edmonds of Huntsville; one brother, Rick Edmonds and sister-in-law Carole Edmonds of Gurley; his fiancée, Martine Berliere of New York City; three nieces, Kim Bray and husband Marc of Harvest, Vickie Rigsby and husband Thom of Huntsville, and Michelle Gibson and husband Steve of Knoxville.
Memorial services will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday at Berryhill Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Frank Broyles officiating.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Huntsville Humane Society or to a favorite charity.

 

[TommyGun]

Another good man is no longer with us. You will be missed sir. My condolences to his family and friends in this time of loss.

 

[yytsunamiyy]

While I too mourn the loss of Jon and would like to offer my sincerest condolences to his family, I have to report that the link to the obituary posted above took me to a very agressive website trying to install "anti-virus" software on my computer. Only unplugging the networkcable and force-closing my browser got rid of it.

 

[Domski]

I have to report that the link to the obituary posted above took me to a very agressive website trying to install "anti-virus" software on my computer. Only unplugging the networkcable and force-closing my browser got rid of it.

Same here

 

[Richard Schollar]

It didn't do anything to me - but that may have been because I was running Javascript disabled at the time.

 

[Peter_SSs]

The link was no problem for me either.

 

[Domski]

I got numerous pop up messages and my browser locked up completely. Seems okay now so they are more than likely just the annoying sort that encourage you to download some fake antivirus software but a bit of a pain all the same.

Dom

 

[SydneyGeek]

I had no problem. The site wasn't hijacked by anything, and the obituary gave a good insight into Jon. Would it be OK to post the text here?

Denis