Leslie Judson Jones
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John died yesterday of cancer. We have been working with John for the last 10 years on heat exchange control systems http://www.hotheatexchangers.com/Simplicity.html . John's shop is just over the Skyway bridge from us in Sarasota.
Just 3 weeks ago we were talking to John and he was complaining of lower back pain. He went to the doctor the next day. It turned out that it was cancer.
John was a character in this industry. He reminded me of Ed Yorkk. One of the stories that he told me was when he was in his late 50's he built a cabin on an island. I think that it was on the Ohio river. He bought logs and transported them on barges up the river and hired a large crew to cut the logs with chain saws only. I remember him telling me that he had so many chain saws running at one time that he had one man sharpening blades and swapping out chain saws full time. The cabin that he built was very large, not just a small cabin like you would think.
If anyone has any other stories about John, please add to this thread.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sptime ... _shareobit
Just 3 weeks ago we were talking to John and he was complaining of lower back pain. He went to the doctor the next day. It turned out that it was cancer.
John was a character in this industry. He reminded me of Ed Yorkk. One of the stories that he told me was when he was in his late 50's he built a cabin on an island. I think that it was on the Ohio river. He bought logs and transported them on barges up the river and hired a large crew to cut the logs with chain saws only. I remember him telling me that he had so many chain saws running at one time that he had one man sharpening blades and swapping out chain saws full time. The cabin that he built was very large, not just a small cabin like you would think.
If anyone has any other stories about John, please add to this thread.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sptime ... _shareobit
