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s rs ey, PA GC), n ,    His wife Mildred died in 1981. A year later, Jon married Frances Agnes Gutman and took early retirement from Pan Am at age 59. They wintered in Key Largo, Florida, and the North Carolina mountains for the summer months until Frances’ death in September of 1987. Experience taught Jon that being around people was the best medicine for grief. He joined a local Fred Astaire ballroom dance studio for lessons where he met his late wife, Eva Milburn, a recent widow, and moved into her home in Horse Shoe Beach, Florida. Jon served as President of the Memories Ballroom Dance Club for nine years, with Eva as secretary, until 2011. They were also members of the Four Seasons Dance Club and were joyous ballroom dancers as well as superb organizers and hosts. 1. age You79, transfer cashtoor assets At Jon learned flyother a Cessna 172, bought a plane and took great ANCSS,Heand/or pleasuretointhe his GC, adventures. was a BAC. ham radio operator and took endless delight, as did his father before him, in working in their woods, sawing and 2. You are tofireplace. an immediate chopping logs forentitled the winter A kind, active and hardworking man, charitable income tax he engaged in many different typesdeduction. of work on motors and other engineering challenges for 27 happy years before Eva died in March 2015. 3. You receive partially Jonathan never had childrentax-free of his own, but is survived by nephews: fixed quarterly payments life. Illinois, and Charles Smith Jonathan, Willard and Gilbert Smith offor Glenview, of Cherokee Village, Arkansas; also by his second cousin, Martha Olds Adams 4. The principal passes to the and her husband, Bob, residents of Hendersonville, North Carolina. institution ofCharter your choice (above) That invitation to Day three years ago reignited the love he felt when the contract ends. for the Academy and the time he spent here. Jonathan may have been quiet and unassuming in his younger years, but he blossomed and became very successful as an adult. He left a small fortune to the Academy Secondary Schools to establish the Jonathan H. Olds Memorial Scholarship. This endowed scholarship will continue to support many students and will make an immeasurable Fordifference more information, in their lives. pleaseThank contact the you, Jonathan. You will be remembered for generations to come. Planned Giving Office of the General Church and Contact: [email protected] the Academy: Judith A. Lopacki 377 267-502-2485 [email protected] Here’s how it works: