Lee County FlArchives Obituaries.....Kilmartin, John William "Jack" April 1, 2012
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The News Press April 15, 2012
 John William "Jack" Kilmartin, age 90, passed away from natural causes on 
April 1, 2012 in Columbia, SC.
 Jack was born the second of three sons to Patrick Stephen Kilmartin and Helen 
Cecelia Trautt on November 30, 1921 in Ridgefield, N.J. He graduated from 
Dwight D. Morrow High School in Englewood, N.J.
 After graduatedion, Jack's first job was with Wright Aeronautical Corp. in 
Patterson, N.J. At the start of W.W. II, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps. 
After boot camp, he was stationed at Cherry Point Marine Air Station in North 
Carolina. Upon completion of flight school, he was transferred to the Pacifric 
Theatre of War, and assigned to the Fourth Marine Air Wing on Kwajalein Atoll 
with Transport Squadron VMR 252. During the war, he received two battle stars 
for the Iwo Jima and Olinawa Campaigns. He also was an Air Traffic Controller.
 Jack obtained his real estate license and worked in N.Y. C for two years 
befoe heading for Melbourne, FL in 1948. In 1949 he received a commission with 
the Federal Aviation Commission in Melbourne.
  Jack is survived by his brother, daughter, two sons and their families, 
three grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Jack was preceded in death 
by his brother, Robert Emmit Kilmartin in 2004.
 A memoria service will be held at the Catholic Church of the Resurrection of 
our Lord, Ft Myers, FL on Saturday, April 28th at 10 a.m. 

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