John Lindsey Wood

Calais – John “Jack” Lindsey Wood, 81, passed away June 9, 2009 at Eastern Maine Medical Center with his family by his side. John was born on August 23, 1927 to Lindsey and Evelyn (Carll) Wood in Calais, Maine where he attended local schools and graduated from Calais Academy, class of 1945. Jack married the love of his life, Jean Porter on November 10, 1949 with whom he raised his two children and shared almost 60 years of marriage. Jack was employed for 18 years by the A&P as a meat cutter, he later went on to retire from Georgia Pacific where he worked in payroll and inventory control. Jack was a lifetime Masonic member of St. Croix Lodge # 46. He enjoyed spending summers at Howard Lake with his family and especially loved time spent with his grandson Chris, with whom he would always put to work in some way or another. In addition to his wife, Jean G. Wood, Jack was survived by a son, John E. Wood, and a daughter Regina H. Taylor and her husband George Jr., all of Calais; one sister, Jean Leach, of Calais; a grandson, Chris Taylor; one nephew, Philip Leach of British Columbia; and one cousin, who was like a brother to Jack, Richard Love, of Adams, MA. Arrangements by Mays Funeral Homes, Calais & Eastport.


Memorials:
In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Calais Seventh Day Adventist Church or Calais Regional Hospital Cardiac Rehab Program, 24 Hospital Ln.


Cemetery:
Calais Cemetery
South St.
Calais, ME 04619 (map/driving directions)



Services:
1:00PM at Seventh-Day Adventist on Friday, June 12th, 2009 (map/driving directions)