GROVELAND – John J. \u201cJack\u201d Davis, 62, husband of Patricia Jardine, of Groveland passed away on Tuesday, June 18 at the Boston Medical Center.<\/p>\n
Jack was born in Somerville the son of John Davis and Anne Marie (Burns) Collis. He was a graduate of Pentucket Regional High School and then joined the Navy, after which he went on to study nursing at Northern Essex Community College. He proudly served in the US Navy from 1980 until 1984 during the Iranian Hostage Crisis. He served aboard the USS Coral Sea CV-43, receiving the Navy Expeditionary Medal and Sea Service Deployment Ribbon with Star. Jack was proud of his role as a hostage negotiator for the United States Government during his long career. He worked as a Registered Nurse for many years, eventually rising to the Nurse Manager position in the forensic psychiatric unit of the Federal Medical Center at Fort Devens from which he retired. In his younger days, Jack liked riding skimobiles and motorcycles. He was passionate about his vintage Rambler convertible and loved spending time driving around with the top down playing Oldies music. Jack also enjoyed spending time with his friends, fishing, and enjoyed boating on his boat the \u201cIona\u201d and going to their home in Florida.<\/p>\n
Jack is survived by his wife Patricia Jardine of Groveland, his daughter Angela Davis of Rochester, NH, his son Michael W. Davis and his wife Helena of Goffstown, NH, brothers Michael Davis of Plaistow, James Davis of Derry, NH, and Kenneth Davis and his wife Susan of Groveland and his sisters Gayle Bereshny and her husband Roger of Groveland and Cathleen Collis of Plaistow. He also leaves behind cherished grandchildren Beatrice and Adelaide Davis and a special uncle John Burns of DelRay Beach, FL as well as many special nieces and nephews and very dear friends.<\/p>\n
ARRANGEMENTS: Family and friends are respectfully invited to attend calling hours on Friday, June 28 from 4PM until 7PM at the Kevin B. Comeau Funeral Home, 486 Main Street, Haverhill. A funeral mass will be celebrated on Saturday, June 29 at 11AM at Our Lady of the Cedars Church, 140 Mitchell Street, Manchester, NH. Memorial donations may be made in his name to the Wounded Warrior Project, PO Box 758516, Topeka KS, 66675. \u00a0Please visit\u00a0www.comeaufuneral.com<\/a>\u00a0of Comeau Funeral Home on Facebook.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" GROVELAND – John J. \u201cJack\u201d Davis, 62, husband of Patricia Jardine, of Groveland passed away on Tuesday, June 18 at the Boston Medical Center. Jack was born in Somerville the son of John Davis and Anne Marie (Burns) Collis. He was a graduate of Pentucket Regional High School and then joined the Navy, after which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6547,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400\/revisions\/6547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}