Obituary
John E McCann (86) of The Villages of Lynnhaven FL passed away on Nov 10, 2019. John was born on May 17, 1933 in Chicago IL. He spent the first couple of decades in Chicago growing up with his parents who were in the Pharmacy Industry. John went on to Butler University earning a BS in Pharmacy. While there he met the love of his life Joycelyn who he was married to for 62 years. John spent most of his life in Wildwood IL raising a family and quickly became aware of another love that of technology. He attended night school to learn all he could on computers which landed him a job at Abbott Laboratories in Abbott Park IL. He passionately worked a wonderful 30 year career at Abbott with various positions in Network Systems, Scientific Computing, and Research & Development Engineering. John loved to serve the people and was an active member of the Gagewood Lions Club, holding many leadership positions over the past 43 years including 1F District Governor, and making lifelong friends along the way.
A wonderful and devoted husband to Joycelyn and a great role model for his children and all who knew him. A man of integrity and good humor. John will be dearly missed, he is survived by his wife, Joycelyn; daughters: Lynn Knutson(Tom), Kathy Roberts, Debbie McCann(Jan ); sons: John McCann (Chris), Tim McCann (Karla); granddaughters, Michelle Boyden(Alex), Laura Knutson, Jennifer Roberts, Shea McGuane(Chris), Kelsey McCann, Erin McCann, Casey McCann, grandsons: Ryan Knutson, Austin Roberts; and 2 great grandchildren Will & Avery Boyden.
In lieu of flowers please consider donating to the Lions of IL Foundation; https://www.lionsofillinoisfoundation.org/
A celebration of life will be held at a later date in IL.
I loved you then,
I love you still,
I always have,
I always will.
Joycelyn
His everyday actions, taught us how to accept others even though they are different from us.
He raised us by instilling a work ethic and responsibility for ourselves. Good Job.
He enjoyed life through his work, clubs, sports, friends, boating and family. And he had a fabulous spouse to support him.
You were loved and you will be missed,
Tim McCann
I just wanted to thank you for your help. I worked at Abbott in the prpo0duction planning area and myj job was to come up with a new production planning system, I opted to use SAS a new user language that you were an expert in. So everytime I had a problen with it I came to you. You always had an answer to my problem and time to explain it to me. I could not have done it without your help. We used my system until they converted it to Cobol several years later.
Thank you again for all your help and may God take care of you
Bob Brongiel