Husband of the late Marie Reilly-McCloskey; Devoted father of Brendan; Loving brother of Eileen. She wrote a survey of surviving Moghul gardens, which was published six years later as "Paradise as a Garden in Persia and Moghul India." He is survived by his loving wife of 58 years Norma Jean (Monnin) and his four children Susan (Jim) Anderson, John T. (Marianne) McCloskey, Lisa (Todd) Johnson and Mark McCloskey, 8 grandchildren, and 2 brothers Tom and Ed McCloskey. Jack was a loving friend to Tom and I. John J. Zura, Jr., age 82 . He taught himself to read and started cartooning for his family when he was 2. Some of the parts he had a hand in designing and manufacturing are still on the surface of the moon. Her younger son, though, whom she remembers simply as a "great kid," is never far from her thoughts. But it will speak to fans of books like Into the Wild; its a worthy evocation of a similar kind of squirming wanderlust. John J. The lines owe a debt to Roger Millers great song King of the Road. And they could have also been the motto of John Moynihan, who during the summer of his junior year at Wesleyan University decided to join the merchant marine and spent four months crossing the equator on an oil supertanker called the Rose City. He was raised and educated in Maine, leaving high school early to join the United States Army. I thought it was wonderful," she said of John's account. He was married to Nancy A. McGinnis on John "Jack" McCloskey, age 80, of High Point passed away December 13th in Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro. Thomas Firestone officiating. Then he and Norma and their daughter returned to the Dayton area to begin his teaching career at the University of Dayton and raise his children. Comfort the family with flowers or a sympathy gift.