Uncle Jack made a lot of friends during his lifetime. On the day of his funeral, there was standing room only at the Bonney Watson chapel. The condolence greetings and the sympathetic messages that the family received proved that he was a well-liked man and he would be greatly missed.

Jack Maimon had a heart of gold. Besides his regular customers he had several  widows whose income was limited and Jack used to accommodate them by extending  their credit to more than the limit and delivering to them as little as a bottle of milk. The  blessings that he received from these ladies was sufficient for Jack.

He had to abandon his high school education in order to help the family of eight survive during the Great Depression of the early thirties. Papoo Maimon died in January 1931.

Jack was a grocer for a good part of his life. His stores were always closed early on Friday evenings and all day Saturday, never opening Saturday nights until after havdala.

Every morning and evening Uncle Jack would be the first one in Kahal. Before  starting time the topic of conversation for the rest of us is usually: How are the Sonics  doing? Are the Mariners going to the World Series this year? But Uncle Jack was not interested in sports. He occupied the same seat in the Sephardic Bikur Holim Midrash for over 30 years. Rather than dwell on idle talk, he used to take a Meam Loez, which was written in Ladino (the original language) and read until the prayers were started. They tell us that he read all the volumes of the Meam Loez twice, reading a page or two every day. He was one of a handful of men left who could read the original Ladino script.

When he gave up the grocery business and became a butcher; he studied and  concentrated on the laws of Shehita, the laws of salting  the meat. Uncle Jack used to know, in Hebrew the names of all the parts of an animal. He used to discuss these halachic laws with knowledgeable people.
He conducted High holiday and Purim services for over 50 years for the Ahavath Ahim Congregation of Portland, Oregon. He conducted morning and evening services for the Sephardic Bikur Holim for many years. He knew all the traditional prayers that  our Synagogue practiced, especially those of the Arbaa Taanioth and Tisha Beav which are not found in our regular Sidurim. A great example is the Haftara de Tisha Beav in  Ladino, and also some Kinoth that are read in Ladino. He learned all these special prayers from Alav Ashalom, his father; Ribi Avraham Maimon and from his brother  Bension.
 

Uncle Jack was preceded in death by his  beloved wife of 56 years, Regina Maimon who passes away in 1989.