Jack McCloskey

[30 JUN 1930 - B1 - 20427 - 12 JAN 2020]

Jack McCloskey Eulogies

AOG Testimonials

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Judy and Jack McCloskey
[55th Reunion - May 2010]

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Jack McCloskey
[55th Reunion - May 2010]

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Judy and Jack McCloskey
[55th Reunion - May 2010]

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Regnier's - Wheeler's - McCloskey - ?
[55th Reunion - May 2010]

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Jack McCloskey and Charron Traut
[55th Reunion - May 2010]

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Jack McCloskey
[55th Reunion - May 2010]

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Jack McCloskey - Don Giza - Dick Dinwiddie
[55th Reunion - May 2010]

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Jack McCloskey - Dick Dinwiddie - Fred Pirkey - Dick Regnier -
Jack Campbell - Carl Bossert [B-1: 55th Reunion]

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Dot and Dick Stemle - Stevenson - Moses - Pemberton - West - Brownie Pemberton - McCloskey - Henry Moses - Don and Mary Andrews - Marie Collins ('46 widow) - Judy McCloskey [Don Reid Memorial Service - AUG 2007]

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Jack McCloskey and ?
[c2007]

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McCloskey's
[c2007]

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Gunderson - Roades - Moses - West -
McCloskey - Rich Miller [c2007]

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McCloskey's
[c2007]

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Judy McCloskey
[c2007]

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Roades - McCloskey - Gunderson
[Don Reid Funeral - FEB 2007]

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McCloskey - Roades - Gunderson - Moses - West -
Rich Miller - Russell [Don Reid Funeral - FEB 2007]

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Jack McCloskey
[MAY 2006]

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McCloskey - West - Wray
[MAY 2006]

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Roades - West - Russell - Deardorff - McCloskey - Lucas - Gersitz - Enslow - Bill Anderson - Auger - Stevenson - Meisenheimer - Wray - Woerner - McIlroy - Troyan - Fikaris - Page [MAY 2006]

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[50th Reunion Bio]

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Lynn - Bazilwich - Vitty - Regnier - Jack Campbell - Strom - Bossert -
McCloskey - Munroe - Sloan - Pirkey - Andrews [50th Reunion]

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Sechrist - Pirkey - Follett - Finley - Regnier - Bossert - Hagedorn - Dinwiddie - Craven - McCloskey - Andrews - Jack Campbell [B-1: 50th Reunion]

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Hagedorn - Charlie Johnson - Regnier - Sechrist - Follett - Dinwiddie - Finley - Andrews - Craven - Pirkey - Jack Campbell - McCloskey [50th Reunion]

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Judy McCloskey - Georgene Sechrist - Ann Craven - Paula Campbell - Bette Young - 2nd Row: Lucia Bossert - Judy Finley - Pat Dinwiddie - Mary Andrews - Carolyn Hagedorn - Georgie Regnier - Chrys Follett - Ute Ordway - Pat Pirkey [B-1: 50th Reunion]

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Judy and Jack McCloskey
[50th Reunion]

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Jack and Judy McCloskey
[50th Reunion]

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Judy McCloskey
[APR 2003 Florida Mini]

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Jack and Judy McCloskey
[APR 2003 Florida Mini]

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??? - Dinwiddie's - McCloskey's
[c2003]

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Doyle - Karam - Drummond - McCloskey - Reid - Malone - Sloan '96 - Andrews - Justin - Jim Ryan - Sloan - Johnson (Bob's son) - Wray - Welter [Bob Johnson's Funeral - FEB 2003]

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Meisenheimer - Bergen - McCloskey
[2002]

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Jack McCloskey - Maryann and Hank Meetze
[2002]

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McCloskey - C. Johnson - Moses - Welter -
Meisenheimer - Bergen - West - Drummond [2002]

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Roades - Gransback - Wayne Smith -
McCloskey's - Pemberton - Reid [c2001]

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McCloskey's - Reid - Gransback -
Pemberton - Wayne Smith [c2001]

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Roades - Reid - Drummond - Pemberton -
McCloskey [c2001]

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Andrews - Jack Campbell - Dinwiddie - McCloskey -
Sutton - Bossert [45th Reunion - SEP 2000]

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McCarthy Family and McCloskey
[45th Reunion - SEP 2000]

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McCloskey - Andrews
[45th Reunion - SEP 2000]

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McCloskey - Cathey - Burrus -
Deardorff - Malone [2000]

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Russell - McCloskey - Newton
[c2000]

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Fontaine's and McCloskey's
[c1999]

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? - ? - Secord - Pop Warner - McCloskey - Cutchin - Andrews - ? - Wray -
? - Bergen - Schepps -? - Gay - Bob Johnson [Arlington - MAY 1999]

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Hagedorn - McCloskey - Andrews
[Greg Barras Funeral - APR 1999]

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Reid - McCloskey - Pemberton
[c1998]

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Deardorff - Andrews - Reid - McCloskey - Troyan - Drummond -
Moses - Schepps - Pemberton [Bill Maus Funeral - APR 1998]

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Wayne Smith - Reid - Andrews -
Pemberton - McCloskey [MAR 1998]

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Andrews - ? - McCloskey - West - Reid - Wayne
Smith - Pemberton - Moses - ? - Roades [MAR 1998]

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Rich Miller - Meetze - Charlie Johnson - Stockett - West - Wray - Joe Franklin -
McIlroy - Fontaine - Fiscus - Wayne Smith - McCloskey [c1994]

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Jack McCloskey and Don Hilbert
[Fort Bragg - JUL 1994]

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Hotchkiss - Malooley - Feagin - McCloskey -
Robertson - ? - ? [Duke Game - c1993]

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Front: McCloskey - Dinwiddie - Hagedorn - Craven Back: Jack
Campbell - Andrews - Bossert - Ordway [B-1: 1985 Reunion]

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[25th Reunion - 1980]

Row 10: Bergen - Cathey - Chapman - Gamble - Todd Graham - Don Smith - ? - Polly - McCloskey - Row 9: Blitch - Secord - Jim Ryan - Wing - ? - Row 8: ? - Matuszak - Wayne Smith - ? - Fleeger - Lynn - Joe Franklin - Charlie Johnson - Gunderson - Row 7: Regnier - ? - Reed - Stone - Herren - Weaver - Matteson - Hayes - ? - Enslow - Cliff Jones - ? - Reid - Feagin - Row 6: Wargowsky - Lichtenberg - Sanderson - Baker - Dienst - McCulla - Schick - Ludwig - Soper - Bean - Shideler - Lenio - Pirkey - Row 5: Goldstein - Fralen - Le Cates - Meisenheimer - Wheeler - Horst - Whittaker ? - Cardillo - Page - Newton - Prater - Lucas - Row 4: ? - Sloan - Traut - Rich Miller - Hoeferkamp - Heye - ? - West - Bill Graham - Row 3: Andrews - Perkins - Gay - Pace - Olvey - Strati - Dugan - Jackson - Whtitaker ? - Ralph Henry - Gallup - Murray - Ewing - Fikaris - Row 2: Hornbarger - Al Edwards - Robinson - ? - Thorsen - Dickson - Vitty - Tom Phillips - Bill Anderson - Giddings - Jacobs - Dryer - Row 1: Bazilwich - Samos - Wray - Trobaugh - Brokenshire - Bossert - Hagedorn - Walton - Poirier - Hasbrouck - LaFrenz - Nourse - Malooley

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Dinwiddie - Reb Young - McCloskey - Ann Kem [Paula's cousin] - Craven - Jack and Paula Campbell - Betty Juric [Paula's best friend] - Chance - Andrews [8 JUN 1955]

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B-1 Firsties - 4th Row: Chance - Sechrist - Bossert - Dinwiddie - Campbell - 3rd Row: Ordway - Cosca - Regnier (CO) - Walton 2nd Row: Finley - Sutton - Barras - McCloskey 1st Row: Pirkey - Craven - Follett - Young - Andrews - Hagedorn

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B-1 Cows

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B-1 Yearlings - 5th Row: Millar - Patterson - Walton 4th Row: Young - Andrews - Sechrist 3rd Row: Rhinehart - Cosca - Sutton - Ordway 2nd Row: Barras - Follett - Regnier - 1st Row: Chance - Vann - Craven - Bossert - Campbell - Pirkey - Hagedorn - Finley

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B-1 Plebes - 8th Row: Kasten - Young - Millar - Elliott - Cosca 7th Row: Dinwiddie - Follett 6th Row: Ordway - Pirkey - Craven 5th Row: Bossert - Espeland 4th Row: Campbell - Andrews - Finley 3rd Row: Berkstresser - Chance - 2nd Row: Regnier - McCloskey - Rhinehart 1st Row: Santoro - Walton - Hagedorn - Vann - Patterson - Sutton

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2015 AOG Online Register
(Updated JUL 2019)
John C. McCloskey Cullum No: 20427 Class of: 1955 Born: PA Appointment: Branch: Arty History: 20427 John Cardinal McCloskey B-PA: Arty: 40Arty 60-62: A&MS 63: ArArtyBd 63-65 [CM]: BC 8Arty 7Div 65-66: A&MS 66-67: Resd 67 CPT: Real Est Sls 72: AD CGSC & CATB 72-73: USARAdv XVIIIAbnCps 76-80 [MSM]: SrUSARAdv Rdn&MobRgnV 80-82 [LM]: Ret 82 COL AUS: MA Webster College 81: CivMobPlnr FtBragg 84-Ret 92

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How I got my appointment to West Point
Early in 1951, I was a student at the University of Pittsburgh, in my third or junior year, studying to become a math teacher. The Korean War had begun the previous summer and I was going to be required to register for the draft. The war was not going well at that time and my grades began to erode. I was becoming disillusioned about a teaching career after an unpleasant experience with one of the professors. The parents of the girl I most liked at the time did not want their daughter dating a boy of my faith.

One Saturday evening in January, The West Point Story was playing at the local movie theater. I didn't have a date that evening and I took my mother to see it. We were both favorably impressed with the portrayal of cadet life. A few days later Mom had a severe heart attack, and was confined to bed rest at home. In those days doctors still made house calls. My married older brother Joe was living in Philadelphia at the time. We called him and he came home, but his wife was due to deliver a child. We were all worried about Mom, but she seemed to regain strength during the week. On Sunday my sister Martha arranged for a lady to sit with Mom each day while Martha was at work and I was at school. The lady was to start the next day, and Joe took the train back to Philadelphia. At about midnight Sunday Mom had one more attack and we called for the doctor and the priest. She was pronounced dead at about 12:30 AM, February 5. I thus became an orphan a few months shy of my twenty-first birthday.

In early May I received a phone call from the secretary to the local high school principal . She said Congressman Denny had two possible vacancies to fill. He was newly elected the previous November and his predecessor had already nominated two prospects, but neither had been selected for admission. Mr. Denny sent out a plea to schools in his district, and my old math teacher suggested my name, prompting the phone call. At first I replied that I appreciated the chance but I was already approaching my final year at Pitt. An hour later I called her back and asked if the offer was still open. It was but I had to take an application to an office in Downtown Pittsburgh that same day. I had only about three hours to fill out the form and carry it to the designated office. When I got there the office was closed until the following Monday and it looked like I might be out of luck. The name of the lady who was to receive the application was Conley. Fortunately there was only one listing in the Pittsburgh phone book for Conley spelled that way. I called that number that evening and luckily she was the person I hoped she was. She lived in a neighboring suburb and asked if I could bring the papers to her home. I did so, and she took the papers, commenting that I seemed a suitable prospect. I was to report to the Federal Building a week later for an aptitude test, which would assist the Congressman in making his selection.

I sought out endorsements from several prominent local businessmen of the Congressman's party, but to a man they claimed they had not supported him in the previous election. But a neighbor who worked at the courthouse, unknown to me praised me to the proper people when he learned of my status. I got the Principal appointment. Ironically, the alternate appointment went to Jim Torrance. I was a bona fide resident of the Congressman's district and Jim was not; and that may have been the difference.

Do you suppose my dear departed mother might have arranged a bit of divine intervention?

JACK McCLOSKEY
20427
2 August 2010

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Judith M. McCloskey Obituary
FAYETTEVILLE - Devoted wife, mother and grandmother, Mrs. Judith May McCloskey, 78, of Fayetteville, passed away Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010, in Highsmith Rainey Specialty Hospital. Born Judith Adams, she was a distant relative of descendents of former presidents John and John Quincy Adams. She graduated from the Katharine Gibbs Business School, New York City, in 1951, and worked as a secretary for Standard Oil, DuPont and others in New York City and Los Angeles. After her marriage, Mrs. McCloskey converted to Catholicism. She was also a member of Reserve Officers Association League (ROAL). She is survived by her husband of 50 years, John 'Jack' McCloskey; daughter, Sara McCloskey-Walcek and husband Steven; sons, Patrick McCloskey and wife Cynthia, and John McCloskey III and wife Victoria; and grandchildren, MacKenzie Lender, Kristin McCloskey, Marianne McCloskey and Owen McCloskey. Mrs. McCloskey was preceded in death by her sister, Dorothea Pike. There will be a visitation from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010, at Sullivan's Highland Funeral Service. A funeral Mass will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010, in St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church, with the burial immediately following in Sandhills State Veterans Cemetery in Spring Lake. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Knights of Columbus Operation LAMB, c/o Sons of Mother Seton Council, 700 Carnegie Drive, Fayetteville, NC 28311 or to the Muscular Dystrophy Association, 3300 E. Sunrise Drive, Tucson, AZ 85718.

Published in Fayetteville Observer

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U.S. Army Ret. Col. John Cardinal McCloskey, Jr.
June 30, 1930 ~ January 12, 2020 (age 89)

COL (Ret.) John Cardinal McCloskey, Jr. (Jack), passed away in Sanford, Florida on January 12, 2020 at the age of 89.

He is survived by his three children, Sara, Patrick and John III and their spouses, Steven Walcek, Cynthia McCloskey and Vickie Buckland, respectively. His children are grateful for their father's guidance to seek education and culture to enrich their lives in many ways. Jack is also survived by his four grandchildren, MacKenzie Lender, Kristin, Marianne and Owen. His wife of 50 years, Judith, predeceased Jack in 2010.

A descendant of Irish immigrants, Jack was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of Braddock, Pennsylvania and raised in the neighboring town of Swissvale. A devoted Pirates and Steelers fan, Jack remained proud of his Pittsburgh heritage throughout his life.

After beginning his studies at the University of Pittsburgh, Jack received an appointment to attend the United States Military Academy at West Point where he graduated with the Class of 1955. President Dwight Eisenhower delivered the commencement address and personally handed each cadet his diploma with a salute and handshake. This sendoff from a sitting U.S. President marked the beginning of Jack�s career with the U.S. Army and the Army Reserve.

Over the years, Jack enjoyed keeping himself busy with the West Point Alumni Association, the Reserve Officers Association, the Knights of Columbus, the Cape Fear Railroaders Club, and church activities. Inspired by his Irish heritage, he developed a passion for genealogy research. He spent many years tracing his ancestry to the Emerald Isle, which he visited on two separate trips.

Jack was very passionate about music, especially the music of the Big Band era, and he shared his love of music freely with everyone in his life. His children can certainly trace their love of music from his extensive record collection that provided the soundtrack to their formative years.

After living in Fayetteville, NC for more than 30 years, he moved to Sanford, FL in 2017 to be near his daughter, Sara.

The family will receive visitors on Friday, January 24 at 11:30 AM at Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church, 1000 Andrews Road, Fayetteville, NC 28311, (910) 488-1797. A traditional Catholic funeral service will be held at 12:30 PM, followed by a graveside service at 2:00 PM at Sandhills State Veterans Cemetery, Fort Bragg, NC. A luncheon will be served at the church after the graveside service.

Online condolences may be expressed at www.sullivanshighland.com.

Services are entrusted to Sullivan�s Highland Funeral Service & Crematory.

Services

VISITATION
Friday
January 24, 2020
11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church
1000 Andrews Rd
Fayetteville, NC 28311
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FUNERAL MASS
Friday
January 24, 2020
12:30 PM
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church
1000 Andrews Rd
Fayetteville, NC 28311

GRAVESIDE SERVICE
Friday
January 24, 2020
2:00 PM
Sandhills State Veterans Cemetery (Fort Bragg, NC)

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